AWS Infrastructure Engineer / AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: Maryland Heights, MO
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Job Type: Contract
Experience: 5–10 years

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced AWS Infrastructure Engineer / AWS DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, deployments, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support AWS infrastructure across an enterprise platform environment.
• Patch, deploy, maintain, and support technology solutions.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Coordinate and execute deployments across Production and UAT environments.
• Manage and scale Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Maintain platform monitoring and alerting and respond to critical health alerts.
• Implement AWS resource tagging strategies and monitor cloud operational costs.
• Ensure infrastructure and platform security practices meet internal standards.
• Support production hot-fixes, patches, and configuration corrections.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and code-related issues during deployments.
• Automate infrastructure and application delivery in alignment with SDLC principles.

Required Skills

• 5–10 years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS production support experience.
• Experience with EC2, S3, and VPC.
• Strong experience managing AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Strong experience building, maintaining, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience coordinating releases and production deployments.
• Experience with platform monitoring and alerting.
• Experience supporting Production and UAT deployments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with infrastructure and application delivery automation.

Preferred Skills

• AWS CloudWatch
• AppDynamics or comparable monitoring platforms
• Kubernetes / EKS
• Docker
• Jenkins / GitLab / GitHub Actions
• AWS cost monitoring and optimization
• AWS resource tagging
• Cloud governance
• Production support and troubleshooting

Additional Details

• Onsite position
• Long-term contract
• Strong possibility of extension and/or conversion
• Candidates should have strong recent hands-on AWS infrastructure/DevOps experience.