Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer — AWS Migrations

Apex Systems; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

HSA (Health Savings Account)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to lead enterprise migrations of collaboration and project management apps from data centers to a Cloud SaaS environment in Washington, DC. The role requires hands-on cloud migration, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure management in AWS.

The ideal candidate has deep Linux admin experience, Bash/Python scripting, and expertise with CloudFormation or Terraform for scalable cloud infrastructure, plus the ability to support production cutovers and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field.
• 10+ years in IT delivering applications or services.
• 6+ years building automation pipelines in cloud environments.
• Experience migrating self-managed apps to cloud environments.
• Strong Linux admin skills and Bash/Python scripting.
• Knowledge of compute, networking, and identity in cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide migration of collaboration/project management systems to Cloud SaaS.
• Support CI/CD pipelines with automated security scans and tooling.
• Build and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure via IaC (CloudFormation/ Terraform).
• Audit and map user accounts, security schemes, workflows, and integrations.
• Develop cutover runbooks, rollback steps, and communication templates.
• Patch and maintain shared services tooling on Linux servers.

Skills

Linux admin

Bash scripting

Python scripting

AWS cloud services

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Apex Systems is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to lead enterprise migrations of collaboration and project management apps from data centers to a Cloud SaaS environment in Washington, DC. The role requires hands-on cloud migration, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure management in AWS.

The ideal candidate has deep Linux admin experience, Bash/Python scripting, and expertise with CloudFormation or Terraform for scalable cloud infrastructure, plus the ability to support production cutovers and