Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) — SRE/DevSecOps | Remote

Bluelight; United States; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Generous PTO

Remote work

Education opportunities

Certifications training

Job summary

Bluelight is seeking a seasoned DevOps/SRE professional to join our growing consultancy. You will design and optimize cloud-native architectures, manage secure deployments, and ensure audit readiness across complex systems. Remote-friendly role requiring overlap with US business hours.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality applications, implement IaC with Terraform, containerize with Docker/Kubernetes, and maintain robust monitoring and logging practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or DevSecOps roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, S3).
• Experience operating Aurora/PostgreSQL in production, including multi-AZ failover, read replicas, and replica lag monitoring.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and ECS/Fargate.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with deployment automation and tested rollback paths, including rollback drills.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, or similar).
• Experience with load testing (k6 or similar) and operating services against latency SLOs and error budgets.
• Security-first mindset: experience with vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and compliance/hardening practices.
• Experience supporting SOC 2 (or similar) audit evidence and client security reviews.
• Experience with incident response, on-call rotations, and root-cause analysis.
• Substantial background working with large, complex systems.
• Ability to overlap US business hours.
• Bachelor's degree required
• Extreme ownership and accountability for deliverables
• Client-focused dedication to team commitments
• Best practices knowledge and adherence
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Positive mindset and can-do attitude
• Meticulous attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage scalable cloud architectures and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead security-first DevOps practices and incident response drills.
• Collaborate with clients to ensure compliance and audit readiness.
• Oversee deployments across multi-AZ PostgreSQL setups and ECS/Fargate.
• Maintain observability stacks with OpenTelemetry and CloudWatch.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

k6

Job description

Bluelight is seeking a seasoned DevOps/SRE professional to join our growing consultancy. You will design and optimize cloud-native architectures, manage secure deployments, and ensure audit readiness across complex systems. Remote-friendly role requiring overlap with US business hours.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality applications, implement IaC with Terraform, containerize with Docker/Kubernetes, and maintain robust monitoring and logging practices.