Engineer, Application Operations (Remote)

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About the role

Management of DevOps for AWS (Amazon Web Services); owning infrastructure code and making required changes. Release Management: take releases, own the process and relevant improvements, and drive to success; ability to drive process in additional platforms over time.

Responsibilities

• Application Operations: Familiarity with configuring AWS services, for example:
  • Lambdas
  • DynamoDB
  • API Gateway
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • SES
  • Cognito
  • IAM
  • S3
  • EventBridge
• Cybersecurity:
  • Distill findings from the security team and address any actions
  • Map security callouts raised by the security team to applicable AWS service
  • Create an actionable list of items
  • Execute against the list of items to resolve security findings
  • Continuously monitor and address findings from automated scans
• Reporting & Observability:
  • Continuously maintain monitoring and alerting for various AWS services to ensure quick triage by the team in the event of failure or outage
  • Configuration of notification mechanisms

Requirements

Work Experience: 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred).

Qualifications

• Knowledge:
  • Strong understanding of serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)
  • Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization — OAuth 2.0, JWT, PKCE, mutual TLS, API key management
  • Familiarity with OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, or SOC2 controls
• Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
  • HIPAA-compliant infrastructure experience
  • AWS Security Specialty or equivalent certification
  • Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, or CloudWatch Logs Insights at scale)
  • FinOps awareness — correlating cost with operational and security posture

Skills

• Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, ArgoCD, or similar) and writing associated configuration files to accommodate build/deployment requirements
• Experience with security tooling — SAST/DAST scanners, dependency auditing, secrets management, WAF configuration
• Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Strong scripting (Bash, Python, or Node.js) for automation, incident response tooling, and reporting
• Experience managing DLQs, event replay, and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.