DevOps Lead, Cloud Infrastructure

About the role

BAMKO is one of the top 10 largest companies in the branded merchandise space and the fastest growing of any of the top 50 companies in the $25 billion industry. Over the last 5 years BAMKO has won numerous awards, including Best Places to Work and Best Client Promotions. The company values personal and professional growth, employs high‑performing talent, and serves Fortune 1000 clients such as Dunkin’ Donuts, Tesla, Microsoft, Peloton, and more. The role involves managing two PHP applications on Ubuntu (nginx/Apache, MySQL, Redis) running on EC2, fronted by Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, Zero Trust Access).

BAMKO may use artificial intelligence tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses; final hiring decisions are made by humans.

Responsibilities

• Own the AWS environment end to end: compute, networking, IAM, databases, storage, and the Cloudflare edge.
• Improve the availability, scalability, and resilience of production workloads.
• Own monitoring, logging, and alerting for production systems.
• Plan and carry out database and platform upgrades.
• Manage infrastructure as code and standardize how environments are built and changed.
• Own AWS spend: track costs, find savings, and keep the bill predictable.
• Use the AWS Well‑Architected Framework to assess the environment and build a prioritized improvement roadmap.
• Maintain and test disaster recovery and backup plans.
• Serve as primary on‑call for production infrastructure incidents and run post‑incident reviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years operating production AWS infrastructure (EC2, ASG, ALB, VPC, IAM, RDS/Aurora, EBS).
• Current AWS certification (Solutions Architect, CloudOps Engineer/SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer; Associate level or higher).
• Experience with Terraform or AWS CDK used to manage a production environment.
• Scripting in Python or Bash.
• Linux and LAMP‑stack operations: Ubuntu, nginx or Apache, PHP, MySQL.
• Cloudflare in production: DNS, WAF, Zero Trust Access.
• Have owned an AWS bill and reduced it.
• Have carried on‑call for customer‑facing systems.

Nice to have

• AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional certification.
• Prior Well‑Architected Review experience.
• Multi‑tenant SaaS or e‑commerce experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, short‑ and long‑term disability.
• Various paid time off programs.
• Retirement plan with employer contribution.