Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Highbrow LLC; Tulsa (OK); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Highbrow LLC is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer on a contract basis in Tulsa, OK. The role is hybrid, requiring three days in-office per week, with a focus on cloud-native development and operations.

You will own the CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and platform interfaces, collaborating with product and architecture teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or similar; Master/PhD bonus.
• 5+ years in a DevOps/SysOps/Software/API engineer-type role with software and operations experience.
• Deep AWS, microservices, REST API, Pub/Sub, CI/CD, and IaC experience.
• Hands-on with Java or similar languages and scripting; GitLab/CI tools.
• Experience in Agile environments and strong cross-stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive CI/CD pipelines, platform interfaces, security interfaces, and pipelines.
• Collaborate with Product Owner, Solution Architect, and Developers to deliver features.
• Provide 2nd/3rd level support, set up infrastructure, monitoring, and releases.
• Coordinate evergreen activities with product teams and drive cloud tech improvements.
• Stay current with Observability, Software Architecture and Security on the Cloud.

Skills

AWS

Microservices

REST API

Event-driven

CI/CD

IaC

Terraform

Java

Scripting

GitLab

Observability

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master/PhD bonus

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Role: Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Position Type: Contract

Location: Tulsa, OK (3 days a week from office- Hybrid)

Job Description:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or similar fields – a Master/PhD is a bonus (CGPA > 3.0 or similar grading is a must).
• 5+ years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, SysOps Engineer, Software Engineer, API Engineer, or similar role with proven experience in software development and operations.
• Proven experience in the following technologies is a must: microservices architecture, AWS and public cloud, REST API design, Pub/sub and event-driven architecture, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Proven hands‑on experience with one or more programming languages (Java preferred), scripting languages, and CI/CD/DevOps tooling (GitLab, Terraform, EKS) using modern technologies.
• Experience working within Agile teams and comfort in a continuous delivery environment.
• Excellent analytical capabilities, the ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders, highly committed, self‑driven, and customer‑oriented.
• Team player with a hands‑on mentality; able to set priorities to craft a direction while also able to work independently.
• Passionate and constantly learning about new software technology and architecture.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the technical implementation and operations of core technical components, platform interfaces, security interfaces, and CI/CD pipelines, such as API Management platforms, web reverse proxies, web applications, web services, content delivery networks, and web application firewalls.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner, Solution Architect, and other Developers to define and deliver feature and operational improvements following Enterprise Architecture and Security principles.
• Provide support to product development teams by setting up CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, monitoring, and operations; coordinating and performing releases; and providing 2nd/3rd level support for the solutions.
• Coordinate and perform evergreen activities with product development teams.
• Continuously explore new technologies and solutions to drive technical change on the Cloud platform.
• Continuously explore and drive improvements in terms of new technologies and solutions on the Cloud platform.
• Stay up to date on technology trends, focusing on Observability, Software Architecture & Security, and Cloud Computing topics.

Ideal candidate:

• Deep knowledge of AWS: Access Management, network basics, different AWS components: lambdas, dynamodb, eventbus, sqs, sns, ECS, Docker
• Deep knowledge of terraform: understanding terraform dependency tree, lifecycle management, state management
• CI/CD: GitLab or similar, bash scripting, runners optimization, access management and protected environments, modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
• Observability: open telemetry, DataDog, alerting, proactive monitoring, SLOs

Good to have:

• Programming experience in any of java/python/typescript/js
• Troubleshooting java and ECS services, lambdas
• EKS
• Disaster recovery setup experience