Senior DevOps Engineer — AWS, CI/CD & Observability Remote

Vista Higher Learning; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vista Higher Learning in Boston is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to build scalable, secure AWS infrastructure and automate delivery pipelines.

You will partner with development and security teams to strengthen observability, implement IaC with Terraform, and drive incident response and reliability improvements.

Hybrid or remote in Eastern US, with a Tuesday/Thursday in-office cadence; relocation not offered.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in a DevOps role
• Experience in systems administration and enterprise networking
• AWS-focused architecture across staging and production
• Proficiency deploying and operating EC2, S3, Route53, RDS
• Design and maintenance of robust CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog
• Linux systems administration and networking
• Scripting with Python, Bash, or Ruby to automate DevOps tasks
• Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
• Leading incident response and root-cause analysis

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve scalable AWS infrastructure and DevOps solutions
• Develop and maintain secure, reusable Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshoot complex build, test, deployment, and production issues
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements
• Strengthen monitoring, alerting, observability, and security practices
• Mentor junior engineers and promote technical excellence

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS

Linux administration

Python scripting

Terraform

Datadog monitoring

CI/CD pipelines

Incident response

Education

Associate degree

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Chef

Packer

Datadog

Job description

Vista Higher Learning in Boston is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to build scalable, secure AWS infrastructure and automate delivery pipelines.

You will partner with development and security teams to strengthen observability, implement IaC with Terraform, and drive incident response and reliability improvements.

Hybrid or remote in Eastern US, with a Tuesday/Thursday in-office cadence; relocation not offered.