DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, IaC, AWS Cloud Automation

Jobtailor; Connecticut; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Connecticut seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and support scalable CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will drive IaC implementations, automation, monitoring, and security enhancements while collaborating with cross-functional teams to raise deployment reliability.

The role emphasizes mentoring, continuous learning, and adoption of AI-assisted tools to boost developer productivity and operational efficiency within an Agile/SAFe environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 3 years in software/cloud/DevOps roles.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Route53).
• Experience with IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/ECS/EKS.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• DevSecOps practices in CI/CD and cloud environments.
• Experience with Agile and SAFe delivery frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines to enable automated and reliable software delivery.
• Develop IaC solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Automate provisioning, deployments, environment configuration, and operational processes.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions with Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Support containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment automation, release processes, and operational readiness.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, deployment, application, and performance issues across environments.
• Partner with security teams to implement DevSecOps practices including vulnerability management and compliance automation.
• Contribute to cloud architecture reviews and AWS Well-Architected Framework adoption.
• Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps practices, cloud technologies, and automation capabilities.
• Act as a technical resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Explore AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrate curiosity and a continuous learning mindset by adopting innovative technologies and automation approaches.

Skills

CI/CD expertise

Automation & scripting

Security & DevSecOps mindset

Agile/SAFe collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Jobtailor in Connecticut seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and support scalable CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will drive IaC implementations, automation, monitoring, and security enhancements while collaborating with cross-functional teams to raise deployment reliability.

The role emphasizes mentoring, continuous learning, and adoption of AI-assisted tools to boost developer productivity and operational efficiency within an Agile/SAFe environment.