AWS DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

AWS Cloud, IAM, CDK & DevOps Engineer​
Market Analysis IT Standardization & Western Market Expansion
Cloud Platform : AWS
Core Focus: IAM & CDK
Delivery Focus: DevOps & Operations

Project Overview​
The Power Systems Optimizer (PSO) platform supports energy market analysis, forecasting, optimization, scenario evaluation, and operational decision-making.
The PSO Interface IT Enablement initiative is focused on establishing a scalable, secure, automated, and supportable cloud foundation for Market Analysis platform growth and Western market expansion.

Position Summary
The AWS Cloud, IAM, CDK & DevOps Engineer will design, implement, automate, and support the AWS cloud foundation for the PSO platform.
The role will own AWS environment architecture, IAM and identity controls, reusable AWS CDK infrastructure, CI/CD enablement, observability, resilience, security, and production readiness across development, test, and production environments.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and support secure AWS infrastructure across development, test, and production environments.
• Define and manage IAM roles, policies, service accounts, identity federation, permission boundaries, and least privilege access controls.
• Implement and support Amazon Cognito authentication and application integration patterns where required.
• Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code constructs, stacks, and deployment patterns using AWS CDK.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments through approved DevOps and GitHub workflows.
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, validation, promotion, rollback, and release processes.
• Implement cloud networking, secrets management, encryption, logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, and resiliency controls.
• Partner with developers, architects, security teams, and vendors to resolve integration, access, deployment, and performance issues.
• Create cloud architecture diagrams, implementation plans, technical standards, test evidence, and production readiness documentation.
• Provide troubleshooting, knowledge transfer, operating procedures, support runbooks, and post-deployment stabilization support.

Required Qualifications
• Five or more years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering or DevOps experience.
• Strong experience with AWS IAM, authentication, authorization, identity federation, and least-privilege design.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying infrastructure using AWS CDK.
• Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines and Git-based deployment workflows.
• Experience supporting enterprise AWS environments and production operations.
• Knowledge of AWS networking, secrets management, encryption, observability, backup, recovery, and resiliency.
• Experience with scripting or automation using Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash, or comparable technologies.
• Strong documentation, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, or comparable DevOps tooling.
• Experience defining reusable CDK constructs, deployment standards, account structures, and environment guardrails.
• Experience supporting containerized or serverless AWS workloads and automated operational monitoring.
• Experience supporting energy trading, power market analytics, utility operations, renewable energy, or forecasting platforms.
• Familiarity with North American ISO/RTO markets such as ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, CAISO, NYISO, or ISO-NE.
• Experience in regulated, cybersecurity-sensitive, or compliance-driven environments.
• Relevant AWS certification is a plus.

Expected Deliverables
• Documented AWS cloud, identity, CDK, and DevOps architecture.
• Configured development, test, and production cloud environments.
• Reusable AWS CDK constructs, stacks, and deployment templates.
• IAM, authentication, authorization, and access-control standards.
• CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure deployment workflows.
• Monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, recovery, and resiliency procedures.
• Security, operational readiness, and deployment evidence.
• Technical documentation, knowledge transfer, and support runbooks.

Role Focus
Secure AWS foundations, IAM governance, reusable AWS CDK automation, DevOps pipelines, operational resilience, and production readiness.