Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS, IaC & CI/CD Expert

Apex Systems; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K with company match

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Life, disability and other insurance

Training and certification support

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a hands‑on Cloud DevOps Engineer with AWS expertise to deliver sustainable workloads via Infrastructure as Code and automated pipelines. You will support provisioning and management of enterprise‑grade development enablement solutions within an AWS environment.

The role emphasizes design for resilience, security, and observability, leveraging tools like Terraform, GitLab CI, and cloud monitoring to optimize operations.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of SDLC experience including design, development, testing, and automation in AWS, Terraform, Python, and GitLab CI.
• Experience with DevOps platforms (e.g., GitLab, GitHub).
• Expertise with Git and common branching/release strategies.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting and observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, etc.).
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices including IaC, CI/CD, automated deployment, autoscaling, and self-healing.
• Knowledge of serverless and microservice architectures with hands-on implementation.
• Working knowledge of databases (RDBMS + NoSQL).
• Experience with languages JavaScript, Python, Go, Ruby, PowerShell, and Bash.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop centralized orchestration services using IaC and GitLab Pipelines to deploy and manage products in AWS.
• Design resilient, fault‑tolerant cloud infrastructure and ensure reusability.
• Incorporate security and compliance early in the SDLC.
• Develop automation tools for deployment and operations.
• Integrate testing and quality principles into the SDLC and automate monitoring/alerting.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Python

GitLab CI

Git

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK / Splunk / Datadog

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking a hands‑on Cloud DevOps Engineer with AWS expertise to deliver sustainable workloads via Infrastructure as Code and automated pipelines. You will support provisioning and management of enterprise‑grade development enablement solutions within an AWS environment.

The role emphasizes design for resilience, security, and observability, leveraging tools like Terraform, GitLab CI, and cloud monitoring to optimize operations.