Only W2- Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Position: Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Location : Northridge, CA

W2 only

 We are seeking an AWS DevOps lead having 6 to 9 years hands-on experience to own and scale our containerized delivery platform, implement robust CI/CD with JFrog Artifactory, codify infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation, and drive observability and log analytics across CloudWatch and OpenSearch/ELK. The ideal candidate combines deep AWS operations experience with secure engineering practices and a continuous improvement mindset.

• AWS: ECS (Fargate), ECR, VPC, ALB/NLB, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, Lambda, RDS, ECache, MQ,
• Containers: Docker (multi stage builds, buildx, caching), container networking, runtime hardening.
• CI/CD & Artifacts: Git + pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub Actions/CodePipeline), JFrog Artifactory (Xray preferred), ECR.
• IaC: Strong hands on expertise with AWS CloudFormation (stacks, nested stacks, StackSets, change sets, drift).
• Log Analytics: Strong hands on expertise in log analysis using CloudWatch Logs Insights (KQL style queries), OpenSearch/Kibana dashboards, and alerting.
• Programming: Proficient in at least one language — Java or Python (pipeline scripts).
• Build and support environment builds.
• Deploy configuration changes to non-prod and prod environments.
• Deploying software releases non-prod and prod environments.
• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure tools
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers