SR. DevOps Engineer - AWS (REMOTE)

Join this collaborative team on a multi-year journey to modernize their infrastructure and applications as they transform the development, deployment and ongoing support to modern cloud based platforms. You will play a pivotal role in transforming legacy systems into state of the art cloud cloud native applications for this international supply chain organization.
THIS POSITION IS 100% REMOTE IN EST AND CST TIME ZONES
Collaborate with platform engineers and development teams to create a highly scalable and secure infrastructure in a cutting edge AWS environment leveraging ECS, Lambda, Aurora, and and other cutting edge tools. Design, automate, and operate using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern observability practices.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Play an active role in hiring, staffing, and shaping the DevOps culture within the organization.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate manual processes, driving operational excellence.
• Lead design and implementation of complex infrastructure solutions and platform-wide improvements.
• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Chef, and Packer.
• Contribute to the migration of legacy workloads by building automation and reusable IaC modules.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for deploying applications and infrastructure using Jenkins and Bitbucket.
• Operate, consolidate, and improve observability platforms including Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace and others to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Support migration of legacy workloads into AWS to enable services such as Amazon ECS, Aurora, S3 and Lambda.
• Collaborate across the enterprises to deliver high-quality, production-ready services.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers and assist with onboarding new engineers by sharing documentation and knowledge.
• Drive adoption of best practices in IaC, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native architecture across teams.
• Influence technical architecture decisions and contribute to long-term cloud strategy (AWS-first, Azure support).
• Document and share processes, playbooks, and infrastructure diagrams for knowledge transfer and team alignment.

BACKGROUND

• Strong experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Infrastructure engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS cloud services (ECS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, etc.)
• Expertise with Terraform Infrastructure as Code (Chef, Packer a plus).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and ECS containers and orchestration.
• Strong PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripting skills.
• Solid experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins for CI/CD platforms.
• Strong experience with Datadog and Dynatrace observability tools (Grafana/Prometheus or OpenTelemetry a plus).
• Solid understanding of Linux and Windows system administration and performance tuning.
• Proficiency with Git version control
• Solid understanding with cloud security best practices including IAM design, secrets management, compliance frameworks and encryption.
• Solid experience with agile methodologies.

RedRiver offers benefits including Major Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD and 401k. More positions @: RedRiver Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer.