AWS DevOps Engineer (DRWN)

Darwin Recruitment; Caracas; A distancia; VES 101.695.000 - 152.542.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Darwin Recruitment is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering team supporting a high-traffic consumer web platform as it migrates to AWS. This 12-month freelance contract offers 100% remote work and the chance to shape scalable, resilient systems.

You will implement serverless patterns (Cognito, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB), build tooling to speed code delivery—including AI-assisted workflows—and maintain the WordPress-based site at scale.

Formación

• 8+ years deploying and supporting high-traffic web applications and services.
• 5+ years working in an AWS serverless environment (Cognito, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB).
• Strong TypeScript skills and hands-on AWS CDK experience.

Responsabilidades

• Migrate and harden infrastructure to AWS for a high-traffic consumer web platform.
• Build internal tooling to accelerate code delivery, including AI-assisted workflows.
• Support a WordPress-based site at scale and ensure SDLC best practices.

Conocimientos

AWS serverless

TypeScript

AWS CDK

Scripting

CI/CD

AWS Organizations

Monitoring

AI tooling

Spec Driven Dev

MySQL

Elasticsearch

AWS Certification

Herramientas

Lambda

CloudFormation

CodePipeline

GitHub Actions

Kinesis

DynamoDB

SQS

SNS

WAF

Lake Formation

Elasticsearch

Descripción del empleo

Senior DevOps Engineer (DRWN)

Job title - Senior DevOps Engineer

Client Location - Remote

Remote work offering - 100%

Client Industry - Consumer technology / online marketplace

Contract Length - 12 months

Contract type - Freelance / Contract

Project focus

Join a growing engineering team supporting a high-traffic consumer web platform as it migrates its infrastructure to AWS. You'll help modernise and harden the systems that deliver the platform to customers, build internal tooling that speeds up how engineers ship code (including tooling that brings AI agents into the development and operations workflow), and support a WordPress-based site at scale.

Key skills and Experience required

• 8+ years deploying and supporting high-traffic, scalable web applications and services
• 5+ years working in an AWS serverless environment (Cognito, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB)
• Strong TypeScript skills and hands-on experience with the AWS CDK
• Proficient scripting ability (Linux/Unix shell, Python, Ruby, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with configuration management and deployment tooling
• Strong CI/CD expertise across native AWS services and third-party tools, including building pipelines and Git competency
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience defining multi-account AWS strategies using Amazon Organizations
• Experience integrating SCM, code quality, code coverage, and testing tools into CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to application and infrastructure monitoring tooling
• Comfortable forecasting AWS billing using the pricing calculator
• Practical experience working with AI coding agents and agentic engineering workflows as part of a modern delivery pipeline
• Familiarity with Spec Driven Development for implementation, testing, and AI agent behaviour
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including Serverless, CDK, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, GitHub/GitHub Actions, Lambda/Step Functions, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, EventBridge, X-Ray, CloudWatch, WAF, and Lake Formation
• Experience with MySQL and Elasticsearch
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect a plus
• Experience in a consumer-focused technology company a plus
• Domain knowledge in automotive, two-sided marketplaces, or e-commerce a plus