AWS DevOps Engineer

Guidehouse

AWS DevOps Engineer responsible for cloud infrastructure optimization and CI/CD pipeline management. Collaborating with various teams to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-efficient applications.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • District of Columbia, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $89,000 - $148,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerEC2JenkinsKubernetesPythonRayTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure and cost-efficient.
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, and reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs and 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

What you’ll need

US Citizenship is required or Green Card Holder.
A Bachelor's degree or additional four(4) years of relevant experience will be needed in lieu of degree.
A minimum of Four(4) to Eight(8) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure.
A minimum of THREE (3) years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.
Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.)
Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
Strong development background in Python, Bash, or similar.
No visa sponsorship available for this position.
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.
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable).
Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
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, and cutover support.
Monitor deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, and developer support.
Ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.)

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud engineeringDevOpsinfrastructure automationCI/CD pipelinesIaCAWS core servicesPythonBashmonitoringtroubleshooting

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsleadership

Certifications

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalPUBLIC TRUST