AWS DevOps Engineer: Cloud Infra, CI/CD, & DR Expert

Valiant Technologies LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 78,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer in Austin to design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure for production and non-production environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, automate infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation/AWS CDK, and ensure health monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.

The role requires collaboration with DBAs, on-call participation, and cost-optimization efforts across multi-AZ/multi-region

Qualifications

• Design, provision and manage AWS infrastructure for prod and non-prod DB environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments and config management.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/AWS CDK).

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or similar.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate backups, patching, failover, replication, and capacity planning.
• Implement HA/DR strategies across multi-AZ/multi-region AWS environments.
• Build self-service tooling and runbooks to reduce manual operational overhead.
• Manage secrets, credentials, and DB access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles.
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and RCA for outages.
• Drive cost optimization for DB infrastructure (right-sizing, reserved instances, storage tiering).
• Write and maintain documentation, automation scripts (Python, Bash, Ansible), and architecture diagrams.
• Partner with security/compliance teams to ensure encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

Python

Bash

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CodePipeline

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Ansible

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer in Austin to design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure for production and non-production environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, automate infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation/AWS CDK, and ensure health monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.

The role requires collaboration with DBAs, on-call participation, and cost-optimization efforts across multi-AZ/multi-region