Senior Terraform-Driven DevOps Engineer (AWS/EKS)

JPS Tech Solutions; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JPS Tech Solutions in Des Moines, IA, is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to modernize mission-critical systems with Terraform expertise and AWS. The role focuses on re-architecting the Iowa Workforce Development UI Tax system using cloud-native technologies and Agile practices.

You will lead cloud architecture decisions, build scalable pipelines, and mentor teams while enforcing security best practices and performance optimization across AWS environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Terraform (TypeScript) experience is essential.
• Deep AWS and EKS expertise required for production systems.
• Experience implementing Istio service mesh on EKS.
• Strong background with AWS services: EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, Cognito, NLB.
• Proven experience with Docker, containers, and microservices.
• Hands-on experience creating and managing Helm charts.
• Proficient in TypeScript and Python scripting.
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Good understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework and security best practices.
• Experience with configuration management and orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform (TypeScript).
• Manage and optimize core AWS services (EKS, EC2, ECR, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, Cognito).
• Architect and operate Istio service mesh within EKS clusters.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring teams and guiding cloud architecture decisions.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure and application deployments.
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests for Infrastructure as Code.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, FluentBits, Dynatrace).
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance to ensure high availability.
• Use Helm charts to package and manage Kubernetes deployments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Enforce security best practices and compliance across AWS environments.

Skills

Terraform (TypeScript)

AWS & EKS

Istio service mesh

Docker & containers

Helm charts

TypeScript

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Networking concepts

AWS security best practices

Agile

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes (kubectl)

Terraform CLI

Job description

JPS Tech Solutions in Des Moines, IA, is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to modernize mission-critical systems with Terraform expertise and AWS. The role focuses on re-architecting the Iowa Workforce Development UI Tax system using cloud-native technologies and Agile practices.

You will lead cloud architecture decisions, build scalable pipelines, and mentor teams while enforcing security best practices and performance optimization across AWS environments.