Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure and cost-efficient.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks, and DevOps best practices, while also capable of mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline etc.) and support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
• Enable automated testing, artifact management, and blue/green or canary deployments.
• Implement observability, monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray or third-party tools.
• Troubleshoot system performance, latency, reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs, SLOs.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes security scanning and vulnerability management with CI/CD.
• Ensure systems meet security, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2 etc.) as applicable.
• Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies, and secure networking.
• Work closely with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field.
• Additional Four (4) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure, with at least Five (5) years in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.
• Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.).
• Assist senior transition team in account handoff validation, CI/CD pipeline validation, GitHub Actions audit, CodeBuild job review, Argo sync check, artifact migration, secrets verification, deployment dry runs, rollback prep, cutover support.
• Maintain deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, developer support.
• Own services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates.
• Hands on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
• Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor, help, and support other team members, as needed to solve complex operational and reliability problems.
• Strong development background in Python, Bash or similar.

Qualifications

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse.
• Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

Skills

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications.

Benefits

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)

Pay

Competitive compensation.

Schedule

Full-time.