Job Title: AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Duration: 17 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $82/hour (C2C)

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Responsibilities :

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management using Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate database operations, including backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication setup, and capacity planning.
• Implement and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multi-AZ and multi-region AWS environments.
• Develop self-service tools, automation scripts, and runbooks to reduce manual operational efforts for DBA teams.
• Manage database secrets, credentials, and access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, troubleshooting, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for database and infrastructure outages.
• Drive AWS cost optimization through resource right-sizing, Reserved Instances, and storage tiering.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, Bash, and Ansible, along with technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure database infrastructure meets encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

Required Skills :

• Python
• DevOps – Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Kubernetes
• AWS DevOps and Automation