DevOps Engineering Consultant
Location: 100% Remote (Must be comfortable working Eastern Time business hours)
About eNGINE
eNGINE builds Technical Teams. We are a Solutions and Placement firm shaped by decades of interaction with Technical professionals. Our inspiration is continuous learning and engagement with the markets we serve, the talent we represent, and the teams we build. Our Consulting Workforce is encouraged to enjoy career fulfillment in the form of challenging projects, schedule flexibility, and paid training/certifications. Successful outcomes start and finish with eNGINE.
Role Overview
eNGINE is seeking a DevOps Engineer to help modernize and standardize cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and operational excellence across a growing AWS environment. This is a hands-on engineering role where you''ll improve infrastructure as code, enhance CI/CD pipelines, strengthen security practices, and build a more observable and reliable production environment.
The ideal candidate has a strong background in AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and DevOps best practices, along with a passion for automation, security, and operational efficiency. Experience with Datadog and cloud observability is highly valued, and familiarity with SQL Server administration is a significant plus.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Refactor and standardize Terraform modules to create reusable, scalable infrastructure across ECS services, AWS Lambda functions, and Step Functions.
- Lead the migration of CI/CD pipelines from TeamCity to GitHub Actions while improving deployment automation and reliability.
- Review source code repositories to identify secrets and sensitive configuration, migrating credentials and application secrets into 1Password.
- Establish consistent, secure configuration management practices across development and production environments.
- Design and implement centralized application logging, AWS log forwarding, and Datadog integrations to improve operational visibility.
- Build Datadog dashboards, alerts, monitors, and automated notifications that provide actionable insights into application health and infrastructure performance.
- Leverage Datadog''s AI-assisted troubleshooting capabilities to accelerate incident response and root cause analysis.
- Create and maintain deployment documentation, operational procedures, architecture documentation, and production runbooks.
- Partner with software engineers to improve deployment processes, infrastructure reliability, and production support.
- Continuously identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve platform scalability, security, and maintainability.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
- Strong experience administering AWS cloud infrastructure in production environments.
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Knowledge of containerized workloads, including Amazon ECS.
- Experience supporting serverless technologies including AWS Lambda and Step Functions.
- Understanding of cloud security best practices, secrets management, and secure configuration management.
- Experience implementing centralized logging and monitoring solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, deployments, and production environments.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to create clear technical documentation.
- Must be comfortable working Eastern Time business hours.
Preferred Experience
- Experience migrating build and deployment pipelines from TeamCity to GitHub Actions.
- Strong Datadog experience including dashboards, monitors, alerting, log management, and APM.
- Experience with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and log forwarding architectures.
- Familiarity with 1Password or other enterprise secrets management platforms.
- Experience supporting highly available production applications in AWS.
- SQL Server Management or SQL Server Administration experience.
- Experience scripting with PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
- Exposure to infrastructure security, compliance, and operational best practices.
Next Steps
No C2C, relocation, referral, or sponsorship candidates for this role.
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