Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Zelis

Leads the design and operation of scalable AWS environments at Zelis. Focuses on reliability, performance, and DevOps best practices in healthcare financial solutions.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeFlorida, Montana, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsEC2JenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architecture and operation of large-scale, highly available AWS environments
Reliability and performance of distributed systems supporting production workloads
Design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform automation
Evolution of container platforms (ECS, EKS)
Organization-wide DevOps and SRE best practices, including SLO-driven engineering
Cloud cost optimization and governance across multi-account environments

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles
Deep expertise in AWS architecture and services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront)
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), ECS and container orchestration
Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar)
Strong background in Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems
Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Bash, or similar)
Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid and remote friendly culture
Equal opportunity employer

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWS architectureInfrastructure as CodeTerraformKubernetesECSCI/CD pipelinesLinux systemsnetworkingPythonBash

Soft Skills

DevOpsSREplatform engineeringorganizational best practicesSLO-driven engineering