Senior AWS DevOps & Automation Engineer

Certara USA, Inc.; Upton (PA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Certara is hiring a remote DevOps Engineer to accelerate biosimulation software infrastructure. You will own AWS-based infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and implement robust monitoring with Grafana/InfluxDB and CloudWatch across multiple environments.

The role demands hands-on experience with Terraform, Linux, and scripting, plus the ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams and stakeholders worldwide.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on AWS experience and cloud infra management.
• Strong grounding in networking, security and monitoring.
• Ability to work autonomously in a remote, multi-project environment.
• Experience with Terraform and CI/CD tooling in production.
• Proficiency with Linux-based systems and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Write Terraform code to build, deploy and manage AWS infrastructure.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Plan, build and deploy server monitoring and dashboards (InfluxDB/Grafana/CloudWatch).
• Investigate and remediate production issues as they arise.
• Respond to alerts via Slack and monitoring systems.
• Analyze logs, troubleshoot and remediate issues across environments.
• Migrate databases and servers as needed.
• Mentor junior engineers and manage development infrastruture.
• Scope large projects into epics and tasks; write runbooks and change requests.
• Investigate infra issues across dev, staging and production.
• Communicate with internal customers via email, tickets, wiki and presentations.
• Execute change requests against production.
• Collaborate with remote colleagues across multiple projects.

Skills

AWS expertise

Networking fundamentals

Autonomous working

Remote collaboration

SRE/DevOps mindset

Tools

Terraform

CircleCI

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

InfluxDB

CloudWatch

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

AWS Lambda

Job description

Certara is hiring a remote DevOps Engineer to accelerate biosimulation software infrastructure. You will own AWS-based infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and implement robust monitoring with Grafana/InfluxDB and CloudWatch across multiple environments.

The role demands hands-on experience with Terraform, Linux, and scripting, plus the ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams and stakeholders worldwide.