DevOps Engineer (AWS / GitHub Actions)

Description

The company is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong AWS operational expertise to modernize their infrastructure, tighten production support, and drive a CI/CD transformation. This is a hands-on engineering role — the person builds a mature DevOps function from the inside and works closely, day to day, with Oscar. The headline project: moving the company AWS codebase into GitHub Actions.
Requirements
Must-have:

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AWS infrastructure & operations — EC2, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, VPC networking fundamentals, operational troubleshooting

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GitHub Actions — required. Workflow design, reusable workflows, secrets/OIDC, migrating existing pipelines in

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CI/CD & deployment automation — pipeline design and standardization, release management practices

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Infrastructure as Code — Terraform or CloudFormation

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Monitoring & observability — dashboard design, alerting strategy, monitoring cleanup and rationalization (Datadog or an equivalent tool; they may move off Datadog)

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Cost optimization & capacity planning — AWS spend analysis, resource optimization, scaling and de-scaling strategy

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AWS security — WAF administration and security best practices

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Production support — incident detection and response process

Nice-to-have:

- Datadog specifically (administration and optimization)

- Slack integrations for alerting

- Containers — ECS / EKS / Docker

- Scripting — Python or Bash

- Financial services or other regulated-environment background

- AWS certification (SysOps Administrator / Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer Professional)

Originally posted on Himalayas