DevOps Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

JobType: full-time

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure with strong ownership of CI/CD, containerized workloads, and infrastructure as code. The role requires deep hands-on expertise and a production-first mindset.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions across various environments such as development, staging, and production.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications on AWS ECS, utilizing Fargate and/or EC2 instances.
• Provision, update, and oversee AWS infrastructure through CloudFormation, including managing templates, stacks, and stack sets.
• Take ownership of deployment automation, release planning, rollback procedures, and ensure deployments achieve zero or minimal downtime.
• Monitor, diagnose, and optimize AWS workloads to enhance performance, reliability, availability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and uphold security best practices covering IAM, networking, secrets management, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with application engineering teams to refine build, deployment, and operational processes.
• Participate actively in incident response, conducting root cause analyses, and preparing post-mortem reports.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and operational guidelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of practical experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles.
• Extensive production experience with AWS services including:

○ ECS, ECR, EC2

○ VPC, Security Groups, ALB/NLB

○ S3, RDS

• Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions, including creating reusable workflows and managing environment-specific deployments.
• Strong proficiency in Docker and containerization best practices.
• Hands-on experience with CloudFormation for provisioning and managing infrastructure lifecycle.
• Solid understanding of networking principles, load balancing techniques, and AWS security fundamentals.
• Experience working with Linux operating systems and shell scripting.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems within AWS environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities focused on maintaining production stability.

Must-have Skills

AWS

DOCKER

DevOps

Preferred Skills

Docker