Devops Engineer

Global Rabbits LLC.; Snowflake (AZ); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nearshore provider in the United States seeks a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer contractor. You will play a key role in managing AWS infrastructure, ensuring security and compliance across systems. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in systems engineering, particularly in AWS environments, showcasing strong skills in automation and security best practices. This role offers flexibility for LATAM-based applicants.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in systems engineering roles with strong AWS cloud infrastructure experience.
• Proven experience implementing AWS security controls.
• Strong understanding of system hardening and security compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure focusing on security best practices.
• Implement security monitoring and compliance with AWS recommendations.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure security requirements for projects.

Skills

AWS cloud infrastructure experience

AWS security controls implementation

Infrastructure automation tools

System hardening

Troubleshooting skills in hybrid environments

Strong communication skills

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

PowerShell

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Overview

Global Rabbits is a true Nearshore provider, attracting the best talent from LATAM and providing our customers with top tier results while offering a cost effective solution. We partner with our clients by building digital teams that extend their capabilities and allow them to leverage our nearshore resources.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer contractor with deep expertise in AWS infrastructure and security best practices. This role will support our Infrastructure & Operations team, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security of our systems, with a focus on implementing and maintaining AWS security controls.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, etc.) with a strong emphasis on security best practices.
• Implement and maintain security monitoring, logging, and alerting in alignment with AWS Data Lake Security Monitoring Recommendations.
• Automate infrastructure tasks using PowerShell, Terraform, or equivalent tooling.
• Maintain and improve system hardening, patching, and configuration standards.
• Assist in troubleshooting escalated infrastructure issues and providing root cause analysis.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations for critical workloads.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure infrastructure security requirements are met for all projects.
• Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation for systems, processes, and configurations.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in systems engineering roles, with strong AWS cloud infrastructure experience (IaaS and PaaS).
• Proven experience implementing AWS security controls, including IAM policy design, key management, encryption, logging, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with AWS Data Lake architectures and security monitoring best practices.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, PowerShell, etc.).
• Strong understanding of system hardening (Windows and Linux), patch management, and security compliance frameworks (NIST, CIS, PCI, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring tools and alerting systems (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Strong troubleshooting skills in hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Strong communication skills in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
• Experience with security event correlation tools (SIEM) and integration with AWS logging services.
• Experience with ELK Stack (Elastic Stack) management and/or implementation.
• Familiarity with data lake security in large-scale analytics environments.
• Knowledge of ITIL processes and change management.
• Contract role, full-time hours (PST).
• Expected to be available for escalations and urgent troubleshooting when needed.
• Remote for LATAM-based applicants.