Remote AWS DevOps Engineer — Automation & CI/CD

Clickout Media; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Bonuses available

International team

33 free paid days

Job summary

ClickOut Media is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team, focusing on production systems behind our affiliate tracking platform. The role centers on AWS, Linux, IaC, container workloads, CI/CD pipelines, databases, monitoring, and production operations.

You will design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure, manage EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, and more, while improving reliability and automation across environments.

Qualifications

• Strong hands‑on AWS in production environments.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM and infrastructure architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain and troubleshoot production infrastructure primarily hosted on AWS.
• Manage AWS environments and services including EC2, ALB, Lambdas, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache/Redis, SQS and SNS, CloudWatch, AWS Backup, AWS WAF.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux‑based systems.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, with an emphasis on repeatable, version‑controlled infrastructure.
• Maintain and improve server and application configuration using Ansible.
• Operate containerised applications using Docker and Docker Compose.
• Build, maintain and improve Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and operational workflows.
• Monitor infrastructure and applications using Grafana, Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch.
• Manage and troubleshoot database infrastructure including MySQL / Aurora, DynamoDB and ClickHouse.
• Operate and troubleshoot Redis‑based workloads using AWS ElastiCache.
• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes and implement permanent fixes.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, security and performance.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual infrastructure management.
• Review infrastructure changes and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
• Maintain appropriate backup, recovery, monitoring and alerting processes.
• Work closely with developers and other technical teams to support application deployments and production environments.

Skills

AWS in production

Linux administration

Networking concepts

Terraform

Ansible

Docker & Docker Compose

Jenkins

CI/CD pipelines

MySQL/Aurora

Prometheus & Grafana & CloudWatch

Git & IaC workflows

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Jenkins

Grafana

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Job description

ClickOut Media is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team, focusing on production systems behind our affiliate tracking platform. The role centers on AWS, Linux, IaC, container workloads, CI/CD pipelines, databases, monitoring, and production operations.

You will design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure, manage EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, and more, while improving reliability and automation across environments.