Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Hybrid)

Global Technical Talent, an Inc. 5000 Company; Princeton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 229,233,000 - 257,887,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance

401k Retirement Fund

Job summary

GTT is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, automate, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines in AWS. You will leverage Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, and CI/CD tooling to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency across enterprise applications.

The role requires strong hands-on experience with AWS services, Kubernetes (EKS), IaC, and monitoring/logging solutions, with a focus on cost optimization and security in a hybrid onsite

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 4+ years of professional DevOps/Cloud engineering experience with AWS.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, preferably AWS EKS.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation).
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline).
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• Experience with Docker and containerized environments.
• Experience with Python scripting.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, IAM, and best practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and production troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication and ability to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS, including scaling, upgrades, security, and monitoring.
• Build automated infrastructure provisioning with Python, Terraform, and other scripting tools.
• Create IaC templates using Terraform with best practices for modularization and reuse.
• Containerize applications with Docker and maintain related configurations.
• Manage AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation.
• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CodePipeline.
• Integrate provisioning with automated CI/CD workflows and monitoring solutions.
• Implement monitoring using CloudWatch/Prometheus and centralized logging (ELK, Splunk).
• Ensure security/compliance (least privilege, encryption, CIS benchmarks, HIPAA/GDPR where applicable).
• Collaborate with engineering, security, data teams and resolve production issues.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

Python

Cloud security

Monitoring/logging

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

AWS CodePipeline

CloudFormation

Job description

GTT is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, automate, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines in AWS. You will leverage Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, and CI/CD tooling to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency across enterprise applications.

The role requires strong hands-on experience with AWS services, Kubernetes (EKS), IaC, and monitoring/logging solutions, with a focus on cost optimization and security in a hybrid onsite