Virtasant
Sr. DevOps Engineer (AWS / Terraform)
Remote Senior DevOps Engineer role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 5, 2026
Eligible countries25 accepted countries
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Role overview
Sr. DevOps Engineer (AWS / Terraform)
Requirements and responsibilities
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What You’ll Do
- Pick up infrastructure change requests from engineering teams: Terraform PRs reviewed and applied through Atlantis, service configuration, IAM and permissions changes, resource right-sizing (CPU/memory), storage and lifecycle tasks.
- Work the team’s PR review queue — infrastructure changes org-wide require DevOps review before applying.
- Handle operational fixes and remediations in non-production environments; troubleshoot CI/CD and deployment issues for application teams.
- Triage and respond to Datadog alerts on infrastructure and data services; tune noisy alerts.
- Support common AWS request patterns: S3 buckets and lifecycle policies, SFTP/Transfer Family setups, Parameter Store/secrets, ECS service changes.
- Participate fully in the team’s scrum — stand-ups, sprint planning, ticketed work with clear acceptance criteria.
- Document what you fix; leave runbooks behind.
Details
- 7+ years in DevOps/platform/infrastructure engineering roles.
- Strong Terraform — this is the core daily tool; comfortable reading, writing, and reviewing others’ modules. Experience with PR-driven IaC workflows (Atlantis, Terraform Cloud, or similar).
- Solid AWS across the core services: ECS, S3, IAM, VPC networking basics, CloudWatch. You don’t need every service — you need to be safe and fast in a large AWS estate.
- CI/CD literacy — able to debug pipeline failures and container build/deploy issues (Docker required).
- Scripting — Bash and/or Python for automation and one-off fixes.
- Service temperament — this role is interrupt-driven by design. You need to context-switch cheaply, communicate clearly with engineers from other teams, and take satisfaction from throughput and unblocking people.
- Full professional working English, written and spoken.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in HIPAA- or otherwise-regulated environments (healthcare, fintech) — comfort with scoped access, change control, and compliance-gated workflows.
- Datadog (or equivalent observability stack) experience.
- Exposure to FinOps / cost optimization — tagging, right-sizing, S3 lifecycle cleanup.
- Kubernetes (the estate is ECS-first, but container orchestration depth transfers).
- Experience embedding as a contractor inside a client scrum team.
Practical notes
- All engineers complete PHI/HIPAA training and sign data-handling agreements; access is tiered and scoped.
Our recruitment process
- Recruiter interview (30 min)
- Technical Interview (30 min)
- Client Interview 1 (45 min)
- Client Interview 2 (45 min)
What we offer
- Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)
- Work hours - 8 hours a day, East Coast office hours
- Long-term, no-end-date Independent contractor agreement (if you live in the USA, you must be either a US citizen or a Green Card holder. We are NOT able to consider candidates on any kind of visa that requires sponsorship, like STEM OPT, H4 EAD, F-1 OPT, L-2S, CPT, etc.
- Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice
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