Senior AWS DevOps Engineer: Cloud Modernization Leader

KBR Careers; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan with company match

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to lead modernization of mission-critical workloads on AWS. You will design secure, scalable cloud platforms, automate deployment pipelines, and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities include building IaC modules, implementing GitOps where appropriate, and ensuring compliance with FedRAMP/NIST controls. This is a hands-on senior role requiring strong collaboration with architects and cybersecurity teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 10+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• 5+ years implementing DevOps practices and CI/CD, automation, and IaC.
• Extensive hands-on AWS design, deployment, security, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration and modernization of legacy apps and infra to AWS.
• Design, deploy, operate AWS environments for dev to production workloads.
• Collaborate with architects and security teams to meet governance standards.
• Engineer IaC with Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, or similar tooling.
• Automate provisioning, monitoring, patching, and deprovisioning processes.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, GitHub Actions, etc.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Kubernetes

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Python

Bash/Shell

PowerShell

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD/Flux

Job description

KBR is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to lead modernization of mission-critical workloads on AWS. You will design secure, scalable cloud platforms, automate deployment pipelines, and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities include building IaC modules, implementing GitOps where appropriate, and ensuring compliance with FedRAMP/NIST controls. This is a hands-on senior role requiring strong collaboration with architects and cybersecurity teams.