Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Nix; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working format

Competitive salary and compensation

Personalized career growth

Professional development tools

Education reimbursement

Corporate events and team buildings

Job summary

Nix is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design and deliver a secure file transfer platform for a critical external financial services partner. The role focuses on private connectivity, AWS isolation, and seamless integration with S3 and internal systems.

You will architect, implement, test, migrate, document, and provide production support across networking, security, and platform teams. The position requires hands-on work with BGP routing, VPNs, IAM, KMS, and infrastructure as

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS infrastructure and networking experience.
• Strong knowledge of VPCs, Transit Gateway, IPsec VPNs, BGP, and routing.
• Experience with Amazon S3, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, and VPC endpoints.
• Experience with managed file transfer platforms and external partner integrations.
• Strong network, Linux, and application troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with security controls, monitoring, recovery testing, and incident response.
• Strong technical writing and stakeholder coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement BGP routing over redundant IPsec VPN tunnels.
• Design isolated AWS environments with VPCs, Transit Gateway, and controlled routing.
• Implement a secure managed file transfer solution based on partner protocol requirements.
• Integrate file transfer services with Amazon S3 and internal systems.
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure through infrastructure as code.
• Implement access controls, encryption, secrets management, logging, and monitoring.
• Define file validation, recovery, reconciliation, and failure-handling processes.
• Plan and complete migration with parallel testing and rollback procedures.
• Produce architecture diagrams, network plans, implementation documents, and operational runbooks.
• Coordinate delivery with partner, security, network, application, and platform teams.

Skills

AWS networking

Infrastructure automation

VPCs

Transit Gateway

IPsec VPNs

BGP

Amazon S3

IAM

KMS

CloudWatch

Security controls

Incident response

Technical writing

Stakeholder coordination

Terraform

Ansible

IBM Connect

AWS Certified Advanced Networking

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Pro

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

IBM Connect

Job description

About the Role

We are looking fot an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong AWS networking, infrastructure automation, and managed file transfer experience.

The engineer will design and deliver a secure file transfer platform for a critical external financial services partner. The solution will use private connectivity, BGP routing, Amazon S3, and an isolated AWS environment.

The engineer will separate partner traffic from business-critical production traffic. The role includes architecture, implementation, testing, migration, documentation, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement BGP routing over redundant IPsec VPN tunnels.
• Design isolated AWS environments with VPCs, Transit Gateway, and controlled routing.
• Implement a secure managed file transfer solution based on partner protocol requirements.
• Integrate file transfer services with Amazon S3 and internal systems.
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure through infrastructure as code.
• Implement access controls, encryption, secrets management, logging, and monitoring.
• Define file validation, recovery, reconciliation, and failure-handling processes.
• Plan and complete migration with parallel testing and rollback procedures.
• Produce architecture diagrams, network plans, implementation documents, and operational runbooks.
• Coordinate delivery with partner, security, network, application, and platform teams.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Extensive production experience with AWS infrastructure and networking.
• Strong knowledge of VPCs, Transit Gateway, IPsec VPNs, BGP, and routing
• Experience with Amazon S3, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, and VPC endpoints.
• Experience with managed file transfer platforms and external partner integrations.
• Strong network, Linux, and application troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with security controls, monitoring, recovery testing, and incident response.
• Strong technical writing and stakeholder coordination skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform\Ansible.
• Production experience with IBM Connect.
• Experience with financial services or another regulated industry.
• Knowledge of mainframe environments and critical production traffic.
• Experience with AWS multi-account governance.
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty certification.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certification.

NB! Working hours: 11:00 am - 20:00 CET, Monday to Friday - availability during these hours is mandatory.

NB2! The role is planned as an initial 3-month engagement, with the opportunity to continue beyond this period depending on the project’s needs and progress.

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers