Senior AWS DevOps Engineer: Cloud Modernization & Automation

KBR Careers; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, modernize, and operate secure, scalable AWS environments supporting mission-critical workloads. This hands-on senior role focuses on cloud modernization, CI/CD optimization, and platform reliability, with mentorship and governance responsibilities across teams.

Collaboration with enterprise architects, cybersecurity, application teams, and customers will drive migrations, IaC development, and secure delivery of cloud-native

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a related technical field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on experience implementing DevOps practices including CI/CD, automation, containerization, and infrastructure operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration and modernization of legacy applications and infrastructure to AWS using cloud-native patterns.
• Design, deploy, and operate AWS environments for development, test, staging, and production workloads.
• Mentor engineers, establish standards, and document solutions for leadership and customers.
• Build IaC modules and reusable deployment patterns to improve repeatability, security, and velocity.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, auditing, and patching of cloud infrastructure.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitLab/GitHub Actions

Job description

KBR is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, modernize, and operate secure, scalable AWS environments supporting mission-critical workloads. This hands-on senior role focuses on cloud modernization, CI/CD optimization, and platform reliability, with mentorship and governance responsibilities across teams.

Collaboration with enterprise architects, cybersecurity, application teams, and customers will drive migrations, IaC development, and secure delivery of cloud-native