Engineer, Application Operations (Remote)

Quest Diagnostics; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Diagnostics is seeking an experienced DevOps/SRE professional to own AWS infrastructure, manage deployments, and drive automation across the platform. You will lead release management, implement monitoring, and ensure security findings are translated into concrete AWS actions.

Collaborate with application operations, cybersecurity, and analytics teams to deliver reliable, scalable cloud services. The role requires strong scripting skills and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and

Qualifications

• 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred)
• Strong understanding of serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)
• Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization — OAuth 2.0, JWT, PKCE, mutual TLS, API key management
• Familiarity with OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, or SOC2 controls
• Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, ArgoCD, or similar). Writing associated configuration files to accommodate build/deployment requirements
• Experience with security tooling — SAST/DAST scanners, dependency auditing, secrets management, WAF configuration
• Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Strong scripting (Bash, Python, or Node.js) for automation, incident response tooling, and reporting
• Experience managing DLQs, event replay, and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Own DevOps for AWS and infrastructure code; implement required changes
• Lead release management, own processes, and drive improvements
• Configure and operate serverless AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)
• Distill security findings and map actions to applicable AWS services
• Configure monitoring and alerting to ensure fast triage during outages

Skills

CI/CD

Scripting

Automation

Observability

Security tooling

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Python

Node.js

Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

GitHub Actions

CodePipeline

ArgoCD

Datadog

Grafana

CloudWatch

SAST/DAST

Job description

Job Description

• Management of DevOps for AWS (Amazon Web Services); Owning infrastructure code; making required changes
• Release Management: Take releases, own process and relevant improvements, and drive to success;
• Ability to drive process in additional platforms over time

Responsibilities

Application Operations

Familiarity with configuring AWS services for example:

• Lambdas
• DynamoDB
• API Gateway
• SNS
• SQS
• SES
• Cognito
• IAM
• S3
• EventBridge

Cybersecurity

• Distill findings from security team and address any actions
• Map security callouts raised by security team to applicable AWS service
• Create actionable list of items
• Execute against the list of items to resolve security findings
• Continuously monitor and address findings from automated scans

Reporting & Observability

• Continuously maintaining monitoring and alerting for various AWS services to ensure quick triage by the team in the event of failure or outage
• Configuration of notification mechanisms

Qualifications

Required Work Experience

• 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred)

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)
• Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization — OAuth 2.0, JWT, PKCE, mutual TLS, API key management
• Familiarity with OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, or SOC2 controls

Skills

• Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, ArgoCD, or similar). Writing associated configuration files to accommodate build/deployment requirements
• Experience with security tooling — SAST/DAST scanners, dependency auditing, secrets management, WAF configuration
• Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Strong scripting (Bash, Python, or Node.js) for automation, incident response tooling, and reporting
• Experience managing DLQs, event replay, and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

• HIPAA-compliant infrastructure experience
• AWS Security Specialty or equivalent certification
• Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, or CloudWatch Logs Insights at scale)
• FinOps awareness — correlating cost with operational and security posture

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

About The Team

Quest Diagnostics honors our service members and encourages veterans to apply.

While we appreciate and value our staffing partners, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Quest will not be responsible for paying agency fees for any individual as to whom an agency has sent an unsolicited resume.

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