Senior CloudOps Engineer

Surge IT; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge IT is seeking a Senior CloudOps Engineer to join a team migrating a monolithic system to a cloud-native microservices platform with domain databases. You will collaborate with Solutions Architects, DevOps, CloudOps, and Database teams to build, optimize, and secure highly available data platforms on AWS, focusing on RDS databases and migrations.

You will design infrastructure-as-code, manage CI/CD pipelines, and drive database provisioning and migration strategies to ensure performance and

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of AWS networking (VPC, subnets, route tables, security groups).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform & CloudFormation).
• Experience managing IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege access.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices (GitHub & GitHub Actions).
• Experience with AWS Secrets Manager for credential management.
• Monitoring/troubleshooting using CloudWatch metrics and Performance Insights.
• Knowledge of encryption with AWS KMS (at rest and in transit).
• Experience with secure database access (MS AD) and authentication mechanisms.
• Experience configuring MultiAZ, Read Replicas, and cross-region replication.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Solutions Architects, DevOps, and CloudOps teams.
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure provisioning.
• Maintain and enhance Github CI/CD pipelines.
• Provision and deploy databases on AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database and MS AD SSO connectivity issues.
• Schema conversion and data migration from legacy databases to PostgreSQL.
• Ensure data integrity, performance, and reliability during and after migration.

Skills

AWS networking

CI/CD practices

IAM least privilege

Database migration planning

Python scripting / Unix basics

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

AWS Secrets Manager

RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS KMS

CloudWatch / Performance Insights

Job description

We are looking for a Senior CloudOps Engineer to work in a team involved in the migration from a monolithic system to a modern, cloud-native microservices platform with domain databases. You will work closely with Solutions Architects, DevOps, CloudOps, and the Database teams to build-out, optimize, secure, highly available data platforms infrastructure with an affinity to RDS databases and participate in database migration.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Solutions Architects, DevOps, and CloudOps teams
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure provisioning
• Maintain and enhance Github CI/CD pipelines
• Provision and deploy databases on AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL
• Troubleshoot and resolve database and MS AD SSO connectivity issues
• Schema conversion and data migration from legacy databases (e.g., Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server) to PostgreSQL
• Ensure data integrity, performance, and reliability during and after migration

Required Skills

• Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC, subnets, route tables, security groups
• Experience with infrastructureascode (Terraform & CloudFormation)
• Experience managing IAM roles, policies, and leastprivilege access
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices, Github, and Github Actions
• Experience with AWS Secrets Manager for credential management
• Monitoring/troubleshooting using Performance Insights and CloudWatch metrics
• Knowledge of encryption using AWS KMS (at rest and in transit)
• Experience with secure database access, MS AD, and authentication mechanisms
• Experience configuring MultiAZ, Read Replicas, and crossregion replication

Preferred Skills

• Experience or involvement in RDS migrations from legacy relational databases
• Familiarity w/AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) & schema conversion (SCT)
• Some database administration experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server)
• Familiarity with AWS RDS PostgreSQL or Aurora
• Familiarity with backup, restore, snapshots, and disaster recovery strategies
• Proficiency in Python and familiar with unix scripting such as bash
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, CloudOps or DevOps Engineer)