Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Real Chemistry is a global agency focused on transforming healthcare through scientific expertise and creativity. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage AWS infrastructure and GitHub CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth transitions from prototype to production environments.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain AWS reference architectures using services such as ECS/Fargate, EKS, Lambda, RDS, and S3
- Develop and operate GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with:
- + Staged deployment workflows
- + Environment protection rules
- + OIDC-based authentication to AWS
- Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) including:
- + Remote state backends
- + Module versioning
- + Drift detection
- Establish and operate environments that increase in level of pipeline complexity and security requirements as they progress, enforcing peer review and deployment controls
- Define and maintain “lift patterns” to transition apps from prototype environments into AWS-hosted staging and production
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, databases, backups) and lead HA/DR design for production systems
- Operate the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) leveraging AWS native and integrated tooling
- Implement cost governance practices:
- + Tagging strategies
- + Cost monitoring (AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets)
- Partner with Information Security on pipeline integrated controls (image scanning, secrets management, IAM aware pipelines)
- Provide onboarding support and office hours for developers preparing for production promotion
- Maintain runbooks and incident response playbooks; participate in on-call rotation
Skills
- 3+ years operating production workloads in AWS environments
- Strong experience with Terraform (IaC lifecycle, state management, modules)
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Working knowledge of: AWS IAM and least-privilege access design
- Working knowledge of: OIDC federation between GitHub and AWS
- Experience supporting SLAs, incident response, and on-call operations
- Experience with ECS/Fargate, EKS, or AWS Lambda
- Exposure to FinOps and AWS cost governance practices
- Experience productionizing AI assisted or low-code applications
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Replit, Cursor, Claude Code)
Benefits
- Offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long
- Generous holiday and paid time off
- Options for private medical, dental, and vison plans
- Support in saving for the future
- Mental wellness coaching and support
- Access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning
- Office locations in cities in the US, UK, and Europe with many employees and clients that serve as hubs where and when they need us
- Attendance in the office two days per week, either at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients for employees who are within an hour of one of our offices
- Real HART policy will apply if a new office opens near you
- Regions where people work remotely but come together quarterly for collaboration, culture and learning opportunities
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