AWS DevOps Engineer

Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments.

Sunnyvale, California, United States +1 more
Contract
$55–$60 per hour
Posted Nov 9, 2026

INDUSTRYSoftware & InternetSaaS & Enterprise Software

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Locations (2)

Sunnyvale, California, United States
Austin, Texas, United States

Responsibilities

Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or similar.
Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
Collaborate with DBAs to automate routine database operations: backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication setup (Data Guard, GoldenGate, native replication), and capacity planning.
Implement and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multi-AZ/multi-region AWS environments.
Build self-service tooling and runbooks to reduce manual operational overhead for the DBA team.
Manage secrets, credentials, and database access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles.
Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis (RCA) for database/infrastructure outages.
Drive cost optimization initiatives for database infrastructure (right-sizing, reserved instances, storage tiering).
Write and maintain documentation, automation scripts (Python, Bash, Ansible), and architecture diagrams.
Partner with security/compliance teams to ensure database infrastructure meets encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Python Bash Ansible TerraformCloudFormationAWS CDKJenkins GitLab CICodePipelineCloudWatchPrometheus Grafana Datadog Python Bash Ansible TerraformCloudFormationAWS CDKJenkins GitLab CICodePipelineCloudWatchPrometheus Grafana Datadog

Full description

Job Title: AWS DevOps Engineer Location: Sunnyvale, CA/ Austin TX Duration: 6 months (Extendable) Pay Range: $55-60/Hour on W2/C2C (All Inclusive) Request ID: 115870-1 Position Summary: "Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or similar. Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK). Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health (CPU, memory, replication lag, disk I/O, connection pools) using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM. Collaborate with DBAs to automate routine database operations: backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication setup (Data Guard, GoldenGate, native replication), and capacity planning. Implement and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multi-AZ/multi-region AWS environments. Build self-service tooling and runbooks to reduce manual operational overhead for the DBA team. Manage secrets, credentials, and database access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles. Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis (RCA) for database/infrastructure outages. Drive cost optimization initiatives for database infrastructure (right-sizing, reserved instances, storage tiering). Write and maintain documentation, automation scripts (Python, Bash, Ansible), and architecture diagrams. Partner with security/compliance teams to ensure database infrastructure meets encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements." Skills: Digital : Python~Digital : DevOps Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)~Digital : Kubernetes~AWS DevOps and Automation Experience Required: 8-10 Comments for Suppliers: ** All submissions must have LinkedIn ID of Candidate**