AWS DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, IaC, DB Ops

Valiant Technologies LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks an experienced DevOps/DBA-focused engineer to design and manage AWS infrastructure for production and non-production database environments. You will build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, automate provisioning with IaC, and ensure robust monitoring and security across multi-AZ and multi-region setups.

You will collaborate with DBAs on backups, failover, patching, and capacity planning, while developing tools to reduce manual DBA work and cost.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python scripting and automation.
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Familiar with AWS infrastructure and services.
• Knowledge of database operations, backups, and recovery.
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK).
• Understanding of security and compliance in cloud envs.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure for production and non-production DB environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments and migrations.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK).
• Develop and maintain monitoring and observability for database health (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate backups, patching, failover, replication, and capacity planning.
• Implement HA and DR strategies across multi-AZ/multi-region AWS environments.
• Develop self-service tools and runbooks to reduce manual DBA work.
• Manage database secrets and access using AWS Secrets Manager and IAM.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for database/infrastructure outages.
• Drive AWS cost optimization through right-sizing and storage tiering.
• Develop automation scripts with Python, Bash, and Ansible; document architecture.
• Collaborate with security/compliance teams to meet encryption and auditing requirements.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CodePipeline

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks an experienced DevOps/DBA-focused engineer to design and manage AWS infrastructure for production and non-production database environments. You will build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, automate provisioning with IaC, and ensure robust monitoring and security across multi-AZ and multi-region setups.

You will collaborate with DBAs on backups, failover, patching, and capacity planning, while developing tools to reduce manual DBA work and cost.