Senior AWS DevOps Lead - Cloud Infrastructure & On-Call SRE

BAMKO; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BAMKO is seeking a senior AWS infrastructure engineer to own and optimize production AWS environments, including EC2, RDS/Aurora, and Cloudflare edge. You will drive availability, scalability, and cost efficiency while implementing IaC and incident response processes.

The role requires hands-on experience with Terraform or AWS CDK, scripting in Python/Bash, and strong Linux/LAMP stack operations. Leadership in on-call and disaster recovery is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating production AWS infrastructure (EC2, ASG, ALB, VPC, IAM, RDS/Aurora, EBS).
• Current AWS certification (Solutions Architect, CloudOps Engineer/SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer; Associate level or higher).
• Terraform or AWS CDK used to manage a production environment.
• Scripting in Python or Bash.
• Linux and LAMP-stack operations: Ubuntu, nginx or Apache, PHP, MySQL.
• Cloudflare in production: DNS, WAF, Zero Trust Access.
• Have owned an AWS bill and reduced it.
• Have carried on-call for customer-facing systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the AWS environment end to end: compute, networking, IAM, databases, storage, and the Cloudflare edge.
• Improve the availability, scalability, and resilience of production workloads.
• Own monitoring, logging, and alerting for production systems.
• Plan and carry out database and platform upgrades.
• Manage infrastructure as code and standardize how environments are built and changed.
• Own AWS spend: track costs, find savings, and keep the bill predictable.
• Use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to assess the environment and build a prioritized improvement roadmap.
• Maintain and test disaster recovery and backup plans.
• Serve as primary on-call for production infrastructure incidents and run post-incident reviews.

Skills

AWS infra management

On-call incident handling

Cost optimization / AWS billing

Cloudflare experience

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Education

AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, CloudOps, DevOps)

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Ubuntu/Linux

nginx/Apache

MySQL/Aurora

Job description

BAMKO is seeking a senior AWS infrastructure engineer to own and optimize production AWS environments, including EC2, RDS/Aurora, and Cloudflare edge. You will drive availability, scalability, and cost efficiency while implementing IaC and incident response processes.

The role requires hands-on experience with Terraform or AWS CDK, scripting in Python/Bash, and strong Linux/LAMP stack operations. Leadership in on-call and disaster recovery is expected.