Job Summary:
Five Rivers IT Inc. is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure with a focus on deployments, automation, and CI/CD. The role involves working closely with development teams to enhance deployment pipelines and maintain high system availability and performance.
Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and manage AWS-based Linux infrastructure for scalable application deployments
• Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable, and fast deployments
• Manage application releases, deployments, and rollback strategies across environments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application delivery using Infrastructure as Code
• Collaborate with development teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, pipeline issues, and production incidents
• Implement blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies
• Maintain system reliability, monitoring, and alerting for production services
• Optimize performance, scalability, and cost of cloud infrastructure
• Enforce security best practices across infrastructure and deployment pipelines
• Maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, and operational procedures
• Participate in on-call rotation supporting production systems
Qualifications:
Required:
• Min experience should be 10 years
• 5+ years of Linux system administration (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Rocky/CentOS)
• 3+ years of AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EKS, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch)
• Strong experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Hands-on experience with application deployments in cloud environments
• Proficiency in Bash and Python for automation
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation acceptable)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)
• Solid understanding of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls)
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog)
• Experience implementing deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling updates)
• Strong troubleshooting skills across pipelines, infrastructure, and applications
Preferred:
• Limited exposure to Windows environments
Company:
Five Rivers IT Provides IT infrastructure solutions to Small and Medium Businesses. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Saddle Brook, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.