DevOps Engineer (AWS / GitHub Actions)

Description The company is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong AWS operational expertise to modernize their infrastructure, tighten production support, and drive a CI/CD transformation. This is a hands-on engineering role — the person builds a mature DevOps function from the inside and works closely, day to day, with Oscar. The headline project: moving the company AWS codebase into GitHub Actions. Requirements Must-have: - AWS infrastructure & operations — EC2, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, VPC networking fundamentals, operational troubleshooting - GitHub Actions — required. Workflow design, reusable workflows, secrets/OIDC, migrating existing pipelines in - CI/CD & deployment automation — pipeline design and standardization, release management practices - Infrastructure as Code — Terraform or CloudFormation - Monitoring & observability — dashboard design, alerting strategy, monitoring cleanup and rationalization (Datadog or an equivalent tool; they may move off Datadog) - Cost optimization & capacity planning — AWS spend analysis, resource optimization, scaling and de-scaling strategy - AWS security — WAF administration and security best practices - Production support — incident detection and response process Nice-to-have: - Datadog specifically (administration and optimization) - Slack integrations for alerting - Containers — ECS / EKS / Docker - Scripting — Python or Bash - Financial services or other regulated-environment background - AWS certification (SysOps Administrator / Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer Professional) Originally posted on Himalayas