Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, W2 role, 100% Remote

10-15 years of experience is must .

DevOps Engineer

Long term contract

Rate: $/hr on W2 no benefits

Health Edge
Should have lived in USA for last 5 years or more .

Location: 100% remote

Required Qualifications
• **Need to be strong in AWS DevOps, building and maintaining CI/CD pipeline, writing and maintain infrastructure as code, and strong python scripting
• 2–4 years of experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering role
• Hands-on experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar
• Working experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS or EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch)
• Experience writing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent
• Proficiency with version control systems (Git) and branching/release strategies
• Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or similar for automation and tooling support
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS)
• Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to troubleshooting pipeline and infrastructure issues
• Experience working in a HIPAA-regulated or compliance-driven environment

Preferred Qualifications
• AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Developer, or SysOps Administrator)
• Experience supporting Java or .NET-based enterprise SaaS application deployments
• Familiarity with secrets management tooling (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault)
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, or Puppet)
• Exposure to observability tooling (Datadog, CloudWatch, Splunk, or similar)
• Experience in healthcare IT or payer technology environments

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on and collaborative DevOps Engineer to join the DevOps team within our Reliability Engineering & Operations (REO) organization. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving HealthEdge''s CI/CD pipelines and supporting the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) foundations that underpin our AWS-hosted production environments. During an active proof-of-concept (PoC) period, you will contribute incrementally to build and deploy automation initiatives, helping shape scalable patterns that will grow with the organization. This is a practitioner role for someone who takes pride in clean pipelines, reliable deployments, and well-structured infrastructure code.

Key Responsibilities

CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance & Improvement
• Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot existing CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, consistent build and deployment operations across environments
• Identify and resolve pipeline failures, bottlenecks, and reliability issues in a timely manner
• Incrementally improve pipeline performance, stability, and observability as part of ongoing automation work
• Document pipeline architecture, workflows, and runbooks to support operational continuity and team knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with Software Engineering teams to onboard new services and applications into existing pipeline frameworks

Infrastructure-as-Code
• Support and maintain IaC codebases used to provision and configure HealthEdge''s AWS infrastructure (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)
• Implement incremental IaC improvements aligned to evolving infrastructure requirements during the PoC period
• Enforce IaC standards including code review practices, module reuse, and version control hygiene
• Assist in identifying infrastructure drift and remediating gaps between declared and actual environment state

AWS Infrastructure Support
• Provide operational support for HealthEdge''s AWS environments, including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, networking, and related services
• Assist the SRE team with environment provisioning, configuration changes, and infrastructure scaling activities
• Support deployment activities including release coordination, environment validation, and rollback execution as needed
• Contribute to cost awareness and resource optimization efforts across AWS environments

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
• Work closely with SRE, NOC, and Software Engineering teams to align DevOps practices with broader REO reliability and operational goals
• Contribute to the evaluation and adoption of new tooling during the PoC period, providing technical input on build and deploy automation approaches
• Participate in on-call rotation to support production deployment and infrastructure events
• Ensure all DevOps activities comply with HIPAA, HITECH, and HealthEdge''s internal security and compliance policies

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