Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS & Kubernetes)

Position Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps / AWS Engineer to design, automate, and manage cloud infrastructure for an AWS-native, event-driven Annuity Reinsurance Platform.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, security, monitoring, and production operations, preferably within insurance, reinsurance, or financial services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, or AWS DevOps services.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes.
• Support event-driven architectures using EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions.
• Implement cloud security using IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and Security Hub.
• Establish monitoring, logging, and observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, high availability, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, data, security, and product teams.
• Automate operational processes and maintain deployment, monitoring, and recovery runbooks.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of DevOps / Cloud / SRE experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
• Strong expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD.
• Experience with EKS/ECS, Lambda, S3, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
• Excellent troubleshooting, automation, and communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Insurance / Reinsurance / Life Insurance / Annuity platforms
• Financial services and regulated production environments
• Kafka, Datadog, Splunk, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry
• FinOps and AWS cost optimization
• Multi-account AWS and SaaS architectures

Ideal Candidate

A hands-on DevOps / AWS Engineer who can build and operate secure, scalable, highly available cloud platforms and contribute effectively from MVP development through enterprise-scale production.

Shift: 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM