DevOps / SRE / DevSecOps Engineer (AWS) - Remote, Latin America

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy dedicated to designing and developing innovative technology that enhances users' lives. With a steadfast commitment to delivering exceptional service to our clients, Bluelight excels in its focus on quality and customer satisfaction. Our mission is not only to create cutting-edge applications but also to foster a collaborative and enriching work environment where each team member can grow and thrive. With a presence across the United States and Central/South America, Bluelight is in an exciting phase of expansion, continually seeking exceptional talent to join its dynamic and diverse community.
We are looking for a skilled individual to join our rapidly growing team at Bluelight. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where everyone's opinions and efforts are valued and appreciated. You will have the opportunity to contribute to challenging and meaningful projects, developing high-quality applications that stand out in the market. We value continuous learning, personal growth, and hard work, offering a collaborative environment that promotes professional development. If you are passionate about software development and eager to be part of a growing software consultancy, we invite you to apply and join us on this exciting journey.
Requirements

- 5+ years professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or DevSecOps roles

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, S3)

- Experience operating Aurora/PostgreSQL in production, including multi-AZ failover, read replicas, and replica lag monitoring

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)

- Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and ECS/Fargate

- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

- Experience with deployment automation and tested rollback paths, including rollback drills

- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, or similar)

- Experience with load testing (k6 or similar) and operating services against latency SLOs and error budgets

- Security-first mindset: experience with vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and compliance/hardening practices

- Experience supporting SOC 2 (or similar) audit evidence and client security reviews

- Experience with incident response, on-call rotations, and root-cause analysis

- Substantial background working with large, complex systems

- Ability to overlap US business hours

- Bachelor's degree required

- Extreme ownership and accountability for deliverables

- Client-focused dedication to team commitments

- Best practices knowledge and adherence

- Strong problem-solving ability

- Positive mindset and can-do attitude

- Meticulous attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with S3 Object Lock and long-term archival for audit/compliance retention

- Experience supporting secure multi-tenant environments (e.g., PostgreSQL Row-Level Security)

- Experience supporting database migration tooling and expand/contract schema changes

- Experience in compliance-sensitive or audit-heavy domains (e.g., fintech, telecom/TCPA compliance)

Company Benefits

- Competitive salary and bonuses, including performance-based salary increases.

- Generous paid-time-off policy

- Flexible working hours

- Work remotely

- Continuing education, training, conferences

- Company-sponsored coursework, exams, and certifications

Being a consultant in our team is a fun, challenging, and rewarding career choice. Your contributions are highly valued by clients, and the work you do often has a direct and significant impact on their business.
You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects for our incredible clients, which will accelerate your career growth. You’ll collaborate with modern technologies and work alongside some of the best professionals in the industr