Remote AWS DevOps Engineer | Secure, Scalable Pipelines

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Remote-first culture with WeWorkAccess

Unlimited PTO with vacation/holiday

Monthly stipends for mental health, +家

Salary top-up during military reserve

Fully paid parental leave

Child and pet care reimbursement

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a DevOps Engineer for a remote role focused on building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, automation, and reliability in a highly secure environment. You will partner with engineering to improve platform health, deployment workflows, and observability across the stack.

The role requires hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code, plus a security-minded approach to mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or software engineering.
• Expertise in CI/CD processes and automation.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS cloud technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and Pulumi.
• Proficiency with containerization (Docker).
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar.
• US Citizenship required for access to sensitive data systems; TS/SCI with FSP clearance may be required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain platform health, capacity planning and scaling.
• Create self-service tools to improve data engineering efficiency.
• Build logging and monitoring tools to visualize platform status.
• Implement secure, high-availability DevOps pipelines.
• Collaborate on building a multi-account AWS environment.
• Automate build and deployment processes.

Skills

DevOps experience

CI/CD automation

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Agile/Scrum

Security mindset

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

Docker

Datadog

Job description

Ladders is seeking a DevOps Engineer for a remote role focused on building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, automation, and reliability in a highly secure environment. You will partner with engineering to improve platform health, deployment workflows, and observability across the stack.

The role requires hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code, plus a security-minded approach to mission-critical systems.