15 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve AWS environments using CloudFormation infrastructure as code.
- Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines from code commit through production deployment.
- Develop Datadog monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and observability signals.
- Strengthen cloud security through IAM, encryption, network boundaries, least privilege, and SOC2 controls.
- Automate environment provisioning, deployments, and operational tasks.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response and postmortems, and prevent recurring issues.
- Troubleshoot live production issues involving containers, runtimes, databases, and networks.
- Operate and optimize Amazon RDS SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL databases, including performance, capacity, backups, and upgrades.
- Tune platform cost and performance as systems scale.
- Partner with software engineers to improve the developer platform and mentor the team on operational excellence.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering with deep hands-on AWS experience.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, especially CloudFormation; Terraform or similar experience is transferable.
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for production systems; GitLab CI experience is a plus.
- Experience with observability tools, ideally Datadog, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, encryption, network design, least privilege, and SOC2 or similar compliance programs.
- Experience operating containerized workloads with Docker and Amazon ECS on Fargate; Kubernetes experience is a plus.
- Production experience operating relational databases, ideally SQL Server and PostgreSQL on AWS.
- Experience troubleshooting production systems; Elixir/BEAM or JVM service debugging is a plus.
- Comfort with at least one scripting language and modern AI development tools, with careful verification of shipped work.
- Ability to participate in on-call operations, communicate clearly, remain calm during incidents, and follow through on root causes.
- Clear communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan.
- Paid company holidays and paid time off.
- Paid parental and caregiver leave.
- Certification and credential sponsorship and continued learning opportunities.
- Competitive salary, benefits, and a work-life-balance-focused environment.
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About AHEAD
AHEAD is an IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and operates digital platforms for large enterprises across cloud infrastructure, automation, data and analytics, security, and DevOps. It generates revenue through consulting, systems integration, and managed services, including cloud management and operations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and owned by Centerbridge Partners.