DevOps / SRE / DevSecOps Engineer (AWS) - Remote, Latin America

bluelightconsulting; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Continuing education

Bonuses

Job summary

Bluelight Consulting is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps engineer for a fully remote role focused on operating and hardening large AWS-based platforms for clients across Latin America. You will own IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security, partnering with engineering teams delivering compliant, audit-ready systems.

The position requires 5+ years in relevant roles, strong AWS hands-on experience (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, S3), Terraform or CloudFormation, Docker,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps roles.
• Strong AWS experience (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM).
• IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation; Docker-based workloads.
• CI/CD ownership and rollback testing.
• Security-first mindset including vulnerability scanning and audits.

Responsibilities

• Operate and harden AWS infrastructure across multiple services.
• Build and maintain Terraform/CloudFormation IaC and container workloads.
• Design CI/CD pipelines with deployment automation and rollback drills.
• Implement observability and run load tests against latency SLOs and error budgets.
• Support SOC 2/Audit evidence and client security reviews.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations.

Skills

DevOps experience

SRE experience

Security mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

ECS/Fargate

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Role overview

This is a senior, remote DevOps / SRE / DevSecOps role focused on operating and hardening large, complex AWS-based platforms for consulting clients across Latin America. The position blends infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and security work, supporting engineering teams that ship to compliance-sensitive and audit-heavy domains.

Responsibilities

• Operate and harden AWS infrastructure using ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, and S3, including multi-AZ failover, read replicas, and replica lag monitoring for PostgreSQL/Aurora.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation, and manage containerized workloads with Docker and ECS/Fargate.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines with deployment automation and tested rollback paths, including rollback drills.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability with OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, or similar tooling, and run load tests (e.g., k6) against latency SLOs and error budgets.
• Apply a security-first mindset through vulnerability scanning, secrets management, compliance/hardening practices, and support SOC 2 (or similar) audit evidence and client security reviews.
• Participate in incident response, on-call rotations, and root-cause analysis, taking ownership of reliability outcomes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or DevSecOps roles.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience across ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, and S3.
• Production experience operating Aurora/PostgreSQL, plus IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, and Docker-based container orchestration on ECS/Fargate.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership, deployment automation, tested rollback paths, and observability tooling experience.
• Security-first background including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and supporting SOC 2 or similar audits and client security reviews.
• Bachelor's degree, ability to overlap US business hours, and a track record of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail on complex systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with S3 Object Lock and long-term archival for audit/compliance retention.
• Background supporting secure multi-tenant environments such as PostgreSQL Row-Level Security.
• Familiarity with database migration tooling and expand/contract schema changes.
• Exposure to compliance-sensitive or audit-heavy domains like fintech or telecom/TCPA compliance.

Benefits and work setup

• Competitive salary with performance-based increases and bonuses.
• Generous paid time off and flexible working hours.
• Fully remote position.
• Continuing education support, including training, conferences, and sponsored coursework, exams, and certifications.