AWS Developer - PIU Compensation Only

Employment Type: Full-time / Contract

Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to manage the end-to-end cloud infrastructure, application deployments, CI/CD pipelines, security, monitoring, and production operations. The candidate will work closely with application developers and AI/ML engineers to ensure secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective application delivery and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure: EC2, S3, RDS PostgreSQL, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, ECR, CloudWatch, SSM.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• CI/CD & Deployment: GitHub Actions, automated builds, testing, security scanning, deployments, and rollbacks.
• Docker & Containers: Containerization, image management, and application deployment.
• Database & Storage: PostgreSQL, pgvector, migrations, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Security & Secrets Management: IAM least privilege, encryption, Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store, vulnerability scanning.
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: CloudWatch logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, incident management, and root-cause analysis.
• Scalability & Performance: Load balancing, autoscaling, high availability, and performance optimization.
• Cost Optimization & Reliability: AWS cost monitoring, resource optimization, recovery planning, and operational documentation.
• Application Operations: Deploy and maintain frontend applications, Python/FastAPI APIs, and AI/LLM-powered services.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on DevOps or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Strong practical experience managing AWS infrastructure end to end.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tools, Docker, and Amazon ECR.
• Hands-on knowledge of EC2, S3, RDS PostgreSQL, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and AWS Systems Manager.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Strong Linux administration, shell scripting, networking, DNS, and TLS/SSL knowledge.
• Experience with database operations, backups, security, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Python, REST APIs, and containerized application deployments.
• Understanding of cloud security, vulnerability management, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting AI/ML, Generative AI, LLM, or data-intensive applications.
• Familiarity with AWS Bedrock, SQS, Lambda, and ECS/Fargate.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, pgvector, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and application performance monitoring.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or AWS DevOps Engineer.

Additional Information -PIU’s:
This role is structured as a contract engagement and includes participation in the company’s Profits Interest Unit (PIU) program. PIUs provide contributors with the opportunity to share in the future growth and success of the company as key milestones are achieved. Units vest based on the successful completion of agreed project deliverables and represent participation in future profit and value appreciation above a defined threshold. Please note that this is an independent contractor role and does not include employee benefits.