The AWS DevOps Engineer role involves managing AWS resources, implementing security practices, maintaining network configurations, and facilitating disaster recovery while ensuring compliance and documentation.
We’re a Canada-based startup focused on delivering digital solutions to customers around the world. Our dev team is fully remote and plays a central role in everything we build.
We’re currently looking for a DevOps Engineer to help drive the deployment of our MVP, including our in-house CRM and billing systems. If you're passionate about infrastructure, automation, and building for scale - we’d love to hear from you!
Note: We are looking for someone part-time to start with the option to go full-time within 3 months.
- Cloud Resource Management
- Provision, monitor, and scale EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc.
- Maintain uptime using CloudWatch alarms, Auto Scaling Groups, and Health Checks
- Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to version and deploy infrastructure
- Security Operations
- Manage IAM roles, policies, and SCPs (via AWS Organizations)
- Implement security best practices:
- MFA for admin users
- Principle of least privilege
- Secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
- Set up and monitor AWS WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, and Macie
- Coordinate regular penetration testing and vulnerability patching
- Networking & DNS
- Configure VPC subnets, peering, routing, NAT gateways, and internet gateways
- Monitor latency and optimize routing using Route 53 geolocation and failover strategies
- Set up private/public subnets for proper service exposure
- Troubleshoot and maintain ALB/NLB load balancers
- User Identity & Permissions Management
- Maintain AWS IAM Identity Center
- Set up cross-account role assumptions for developers and admins
- Backup & Disaster Recovery
- Configure and automate backups for RDS, DynamoDB, and S3 (including versioning and replication)
- Ensure and test disaster recovery plans, including regional failover
- Document and maintain RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) metrics
- Compliance & Logging
- Maintain audit logs via CloudTrail, AWS Config, and centralized logging systems
- Coordinate with engineering teams on PII tagging, data encryption (at rest and in transit), and retention policies
- Documentation
- Maintain architecture diagrams and infrastructure documentation
- Create and update runbooks for incident response, scaling events, failovers, and security breaches
- Proven experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
- Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices and AWS security tools
- Solid understanding of VPC, routing, subnets, DNS, and load balancing
- Familiarity with identity and access management in multi-account AWS environments
- Experience designing and testing disaster recovery strategies in AWS
- Knowledge of compliance requirements and logging best practices
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organizational, time-management, and prioritization abilities
- Self-motivated, able to work independently and drive initiatives forward
Preferred Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science or related field
- AWS Solutions Architect Certification
- Competitive Compensation: Includes base salary and profit-sharing pool
- Remote Flexibility: Fully remote work, flexible hours, generous PTO and sick leave
- Startup Impact: Small, agile team where your voice matters and you can shape the product and architecture
- Growth & Innovation: Work with a modern tech stack, fast career growth opportunities, and no micromanagement
- Team Culture: Annual company retreat, collaborative and supportive environment
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Top Skills
Aws Cloudwatch
Aws Ec2
Aws Ecs
Aws Eks
Aws Guardduty
Aws Iam
Aws Lambda
Aws Macie
Aws Rds
Aws Shield
Aws Waf
CloudFormation
Route 53
Terraform
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