Senior AWS DevOps Engineer: Terraform, CI/CD & Security

Guidehouse; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 118,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Systems Engineer to advance our cloud infrastructure and automation initiatives across AWS and hybrid environments.

You will automate provisioning with Terraform, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and reinforce security, reliability, and resilience for mission-critical workloads. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and application teams to ensure incident readiness and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Minimum six years hands-on AWS cloud experience.
• Strong Terraform experience for AWS infrastructure automation.
• Strong Jenkins/CI-CD pipeline experience, including YAML and Groovy scripting.
• Scripting skills in Python and/or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Automate provisioning and lifecycle management of AWS services using Terraform.
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure across AWS and hybrid environments.
• Build reusable Terraform modules; standardize across environments.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Docker.
• Implement monitoring and observability with Splunk, Zabbix, AppDynamics.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Zero-trust

NIST

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/IT/CS

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a Systems Engineer to advance our cloud infrastructure and automation initiatives across AWS and hybrid environments.

You will automate provisioning with Terraform, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and reinforce security, reliability, and resilience for mission-critical workloads. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and application teams to ensure incident readiness and continuous improvement.