AWS DevOps specialist - Full remote - Contractor in USD

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive salary

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a REMOTE AWS DevOps specialist to join an international team based in New York, working in an agile environment. The role focuses on Build/Release, CI/CD, and automated deployment of microservices using Docker and AWS services.

Candidates should have 3+ years of hands-on AWS deployment experience, strong DevOps expertise, and knowledge of Terraform, Python, MongoDB, and Redis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field.
• +3 years of hands-on AWS cloud deployment experience.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices and IaC.
• Experience with Python, Terraform, MongoDB, Redis.
• Proficient in AWS services: EC2, ECS, ELB/ALB, IAM, Lambda.

Responsibilities

• Migrate websites to AWS and manage cloud-based production systems.
• Automate deployment and release processes; ensure security and scalability.
• Implement metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS.
• Collaborate in an agile environment and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide architecture and process improvement recommendations.
• Coordinate build and deployment verification and pre-prod testing.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD

Configuration management

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring & logging

Python

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Git

Bash

AWS

Job description

Category: IT Services

Location:

For an international organization in New York, we are urgently looking for a REMOTE AWS DevOps specialist with a history of working in an agile environment. Ideally, the applicant should have AWS experience in the Build, Release processes, Continuous Integration (CI)

, Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD) for the automated deployment of Microservices components using Docker Containers, AWS services and other technologies.

Candidates need to be able to work +6 hours per day in the normal office hours of New York, US. Example 9AM NY time equals 7:30PM.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Assist in migration of websites to AWS;
• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system;
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems;
• Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems;
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms;
• Pre-production acceptance testing for quality assurance;
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions;
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements;
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform;
• Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes;
• Perform other duties as may be reasonably required and in line with the incumbent’s scope of services above;

Profile:

• Bachelor or Master degree;
• +3 years of hands‑on experience supporting application build and deployment in a AWS Cloud environment;
• Experience and deep understanding of core DevOps practices (Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Monitoring);
• Experience and deep understanding of DevOps integration with automated testing and/or automation deployment verification;
• Experience and expertise in any of scripting languages and databases: Python, Terraform and MongoDB, Redis;
• Knowledge/experience with AWS services – EC2, ECS, ELB/ALB, Security Groups, Route53, IAM, KMS, Cognito, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, Lambda, SES, SNS, SQS;
• Familiar with various Branching strategies, pull request concept and GIT commands and Bash;
• Knowledge/experience of Microservices architecture, Docker container implementation;
• Certification is an advantage;
• English language proficiency (oral and written);

Offered:

• A challenging role for an international organization;
• Attractive salary package or contractor rate;