Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) — ML Pipelines & FinOps

SherlockTalent; Miami (FL); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading U.S. bank seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to modernize its core platform by designing and operating AWS-based ML pipelines. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in AWS, a strong understanding of FinOps, and a commitment to security and compliance in regulated environments. This role offers a remote-first culture with the potential for further certifications and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Certification budget for AWS and CKA

Paid attendance at conferences

Monthly home-office stipend

Remote-first culture with flexible hours

Referral bonus for successful hires

Qualifications

• 7+ years DevOps / SRE experience on AWS, 3+ years with ML platforms.
• Deep expertise in Terraform or CDK and EKS operations.
• Strong communication skills and commitment to blameless post-mortems.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate SageMaker-based ML pipelines within AWS.
• Provision secure landing zones using AWS CDK and Terraform.
• Set up CloudWatch and Grafana dashboards for monitoring.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Terraform

EKS Operations

FinOps

SageMaker

CloudWatch

Grafana

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Argo CD

CloudWatch

Grafana

Prometheus

Trivy

Falco

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS ML Pipelines & FinOpsJob #734912-month W-2 contract (renewal likely)Rate: $80 – $95 per hour DOELocation: Remote / Hybrid - Core hours 09:00 – 13:00 PST

About the role:

A Tier-1 U.S. bank is modernising its 20-year-old core platform. We need a seasoned DevOps engineer to design and operate SageMaker-based ML pipelines in AWS while meeting strict security, uptime, and cost-management requirements.

What you’ll do:

– Provision secure landing zones with AWS CDK and Terraform; implement least-privilege IAM.– Build GitOps pipelines in Argo CD for continuous model retraining, blue/green inference, and data-drift checks.– Break monolithic services into EKS microservices behind API Gateway with zero-downtime principles.– Set up CloudWatch and Grafana dashboards for latency, cost, and data-quality SLOs with real-time alerts.– Apply policy-as-code (OPA or Kyverno) so every container meets banking-grade compliance at commit time.– Champion infrastructure-as-code: every subnet, secret, and S3 bucket lands through a pull request.

What you bring:

– 7 + years DevOps / SRE on AWS, with at least 3 years supporting ML or data-heavy platforms.– Deep expertise in Terraform or CDK, containers, and EKS operations.– Demonstrated FinOps results in regulated environments (banking, healthcare, etc.).– Strong experience with SageMaker; familiarity with Bedrock, EMR, Kafka, or Iceberg is a plus.– Proficiency with CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Trivy, Falco, and related security tools.– Clear, concise communicator committed to blameless post-mortems.– BS in Computer Science (or equivalent). AWS Professional or CKA cert preferred.

Why contract with us:

– Dedicated budget for CKA, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or FinOps Practitioner certification.– Paid attendance (virtual or on-site) at re:Invent or KubeCon.– Monthly home-office or co-working stipend.– Remote-first culture: four-hour PST overlap window; the rest is async.– Refer a candidate and earn a $1,000 bonus if they are hired.

Interested? Apply below.