Senior AWS DevOps & Cloud Security Lead

Payactiv, Inc.; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with company match

Tuition assistance

Unlimited PTO

Gym reimbursement

Paid family leave

Office lunches

Job summary

Payactiv, Inc. is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps & Cloud Security Engineer to own security, production infrastructure, and DevOps automation across our AWS environment in Silicon Valley.

You will secure cloud infrastructure, manage production-scale systems, and lead CI/CD and IaC initiatives. The ideal candidate will be a security-first engineer with strong AWS, Docker/EKS, AD/IAM integration, Windows workloads, and mature DevOps in regulated, high-availability settings.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years in DevOps, Infra, or Cloud Eng roles.
• Proven cloud security experience including IAM governance and secrets management.
• In-depth AD experience including IAM-AD integration and federated auth.
• Production Docker experience (4+ years) and EKS/Kubernetes.
• Strong scripting: PowerShell preferred, Bash or Python also ok.
• CI/CD tooling: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Windows Server IIS, .NET/C# apps, SQL Server.
• Monitoring/APM: Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Site24x7.
• Networking basics: DNS, LB, SSL/TLS, VPC, routing, firewalls.

Responsibilities

• Own the security posture of AWS accounts, environments, and production workloads.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, secure AWS infra.
• Manage AD integration with AWS IAM for EC2, EKS, and app access.
• Lead end-to-end DevOps initiatives: CI/CD, IaC, version control, artifacts, pipelines.
• Administer and harden Windows Server IIS workloads on AWS.
• Implement container orchestration via Docker and EKS.
• Define and enforce cloud governance policies and CIS/NIST/HIPAA adherence.
• Set up observability: alerting, logging, metrics, dashboards (Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics).
• Create automation scripts and tools to improve ops efficiency.
• Handle on-call and incident response with RCA and preventive measures.
• Monitor and optimize cloud costs, performance, availability.
• Mentor juniors to follow DevOps/security best practices.

Skills

Security-first mindset

AWS cloud

Container platforms

AD/IAM integration

Windows workloads

DevOps automation

Scripting (PowerShell)

CI/CD pipelines

IaC (Terraform/CFN/Pulumi)

Monitoring/APM

Networking basics

Tools

Docker

Amazon EKS/Kubernetes

Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/Jenkins

Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi

Datadog/Dynatrace/AppDynamics/Site24x7

AD/IAM integration

Windows Server IIS

Job description

Payactiv, Inc. is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps & Cloud Security Engineer to own security, production infrastructure, and DevOps automation across our AWS environment in Silicon Valley.

You will secure cloud infrastructure, manage production-scale systems, and lead CI/CD and IaC initiatives. The ideal candidate will be a security-first engineer with strong AWS, Docker/EKS, AD/IAM integration, Windows workloads, and mature DevOps in regulated, high-availability settings.