Cloud DevOps Lead: AWS, Terraform & GitHub Actions

Amtex Systems Inc; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amtex Systems Inc. is seeking a DevOps Technical Lead / Architect to guide cloud infrastructure design, CI/CD implementation, and standardization across AWS environments.

You will lead automation efforts, manage IaC with Terraform, and optimize deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions to support reliable software delivery. In this role, you will drive disaster recovery planning, infrastructure resilience, and collaboration across engineering, security, and operations teams to achieve

Qualifications

• Experience leading DevOps initiatives and ownership of architecture.
• Hands-on with GitHub Actions for CI/CD design and automation.
• Strong AWS cloud services knowledge and architecture.
• Proficiency with Terraform for IaC.
• Experience implementing standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Experience with disaster recovery and high availability.
• Solid Linux, networking, security understanding.
• Experience with Docker; Kubernetes a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for DevOps, cloud infra, and CI/CD initiatives.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to support efficient, scalable, and reliable software delivery.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform across AWS environments.
• Define and implement DevOps standards, best practices, tooling, and automation patterns across engineering teams.
• Design, provision, configure, and optimize AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC) to support application workloads.
• Lead or support disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience initiatives.
• Establish automated deployment strategies, including blue/green and rolling deployments.
• Evaluate existing DevOps processes and architectures and identify opportunities for standardization, automation, and improvement.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues across environments (dev, staging, production).
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts to ensure system resilience and reliability.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams to establish and promote DevOps best practices.

Skills

Technical Leadership

GitHub Actions

AWS

Terraform

DevOps Standards

Disaster Recovery

Linux Networking

Docker

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS Console

Job description

Amtex Systems Inc. is seeking a DevOps Technical Lead / Architect to guide cloud infrastructure design, CI/CD implementation, and standardization across AWS environments.

You will lead automation efforts, manage IaC with Terraform, and optimize deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions to support reliable software delivery. In this role, you will drive disaster recovery planning, infrastructure resilience, and collaboration across engineering, security, and operations teams to achieve