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AWS DevOps Engineer

Five Rivers IT, Inc.
Posted 3 months ago, valid for a day
Location

Fair Lawn, NJ 07410, US

Salary

$90,000 - $120,000 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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  • We are looking for a local AWS DevOps Engineer with a minimum of 10 years of experience to design and manage scalable AWS infrastructure.
  • This role focuses on enhancing software delivery speed and reliability while ensuring high system performance and availability.
  • Key responsibilities include optimizing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning, and collaborating with development teams on deployment workflows.
  • The position offers a salary range of $90,000 to $120,000 based on experience, along with benefits such as medical insurance and vacation time.
  • Candidates must be willing to work on-site in Fair Lawn, NJ, and should not apply if they are not local or unwilling to relocate.

AWS DevOps Engineer
Min experience should be 10 years 

We are seeking a DevOps / SRE Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure with a strong emphasis on deployments, automation, and CI/CD. This role prioritizes enabling fast, reliable software delivery while maintaining high system availability and performance. You will work closely with development teams to streamline deployment pipelines, improve release velocity, and enforce infrastructure best practices.

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

Required Skills

  • 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

Nice to Have

  • Limited exposure to Windows environments

Profile

  • Strong focus on automation, deployment efficiency, and developer enablement
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with frequent releases
  • Collaborative mindset with strong communication across DevOps and engineering teams
  • Ownership-driven with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence 

Other Details about the Job

  • Benefits are offered such as medical/dental/vision insurance and vacation time.  401k will be obtained as a benefit after 1 full  year of service.
  • Compensation for Cloud System Admin will range from $90,000 to $120,000 based on experience, if your experience falls outside required ranges compensation may be based on other open roles.



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