
AEM Technical Lead
Blue Acorn iCi3 months ago
Remote, WorldwideStaff+
Base Salary
$135k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and environment automation using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Provision, configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and operate AEM as a Cloud Service environments.
- Configure, monitor, and support Apache web servers and AEM Dispatcher setups.
- Build and manage Docker and Kubernetes services across development, staging, and production.
- Guide internal and external teams on AEM performance optimization and operational best practices.
- Lead infrastructure builds for high-availability production environments on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Automate operational tasks and improve deployment workflows using Bash, Python, and Groovy.
- Monitor site uptime and performance using New Relic, Datadog, and Splunk.
- Maintain disaster recovery runbooks and infrastructure diagrams.
- Participate in incident response and an on-call support rotation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5–7 years of experience in DevOps or web operations roles involving AEM, including AEM v6.5 and AEM as a Cloud Service.
- Experience with AEM migrations, Apache server administration, and Dispatcher configuration.
- Experience configuring and maintaining CDN/WAF infrastructure and Adobe Enhanced Security.
- Strong production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
- Solid Linux/Unix administration experience.
- Strong scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Shell.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk and AppDynamics.
- Understanding of load balancing, clustering, and high-availability architecture.
- Preferred: Adobe Certified Expert AEM Sites DevOps Engineer or Architect certification.
- Preferred: experience with Adobe Cloud Manager, Adobe I/O, and AEM Brand Portal.
- Preferred: familiarity with VMware or Vagrant.
- Preferred: exposure to PHP-based platforms and hybrid infrastructure models.
- Nice to have: Adobe Commerce certifications, at least 5 years of Adobe Commerce development experience, and at least 3 years working on Adobe Commerce enterprise solutions.
Benefits
- Full-time, non-temporary employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, 401(k), and additional benefits.
- US-based candidates must have unrestricted US work authorization without current or future employer sponsorship; the company does not provide immigration or visa sponsorship for this position.
- The role includes participation in an on-call support rotation.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureBashDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformGroovyJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPHPPythonSplunkTerraformVagrant