DevOps Lead, Cloud Infrastructure
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026.
Who is BAMKO?
BAMKO is one of the top 10 largest companies in the branded merchandise space and the fastest growing of any of the top 50 companies in the $25 billion dollar industry. Over the last 5 years, BAMKO has won countless awards, including Best Places to Work & Best Client Promotions. With a culture built around the concepts of personal and professional growth, BAMKO puts values into actions. BAMKO has the best and the brightest employees who love a challenge that unlocks their highest potential. Our portfolio of clients have a range of known Fortune 1000 companies. This includes but is not limited to Dunkin’ Donuts, Tesla, Microsoft, Peloton and more! We are a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and innovative company where culture is at our core. We attract and retain high-level talent that continues to outpace the competition. If you are driven, have big brain ideas, are competitive and enjoy working with multiple teams, we want you to be a part of building something special here at BAMKO.
Two PHP applications on Ubuntu (nginx/Apache, MySQL, Redis) running on EC2, fronted by Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, Zero Trust Access). The platforms are stable and business-critical, with real room to mature in availability, automation, and cost efficiency. You will set the direction.
What YOU will do:
- Own the AWS environment end to end: compute, networking, IAM, databases, storage, and the Cloudflare edge.
- Improve the availability, scalability, and resilience of production workloads.
- Own monitoring, logging, and alerting for production systems.
- Plan and carry out database and platform upgrades.
- Manage infrastructure as code and standardize how environments are built and changed.
- Own AWS spend: track costs, find savings, and keep the bill predictable.
- Use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to assess the environment and build a prioritized improvement roadmap.
- Maintain and test disaster recovery and backup plans.
- Serve as primary on-call for production infrastructure incidents and run post-incident reviews.
Who YOU are:
- 5+ years operating production AWS infrastructure (EC2, ASG, ALB, VPC, IAM, RDS/Aurora, EBS).
- Current AWS certification (Solutions Architect, CloudOps Engineer/SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer; Associate level or higher).
- Terraform or AWS CDK used to manage a production environment.
- Scripting in Python or Bash.
- Linux and LAMP-stack operations: Ubuntu, nginx or Apache, PHP, MySQL.
- Cloudflare in production: DNS, WAF, Zero Trust Access.
- Have owned an AWS bill and reduced it.
- Have carried on-call for customer-facing systems.
Nice to have: AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional certification; prior Well-Architected Review; multi-tenant SaaS or e-commerce experience.
Why BAMKO?
At BAMKO, we want you to be well and thrive. The rate of pay offered will be dependent upon the candidate’s relevant skills and experience. In addition, there is a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, various paid time off programs, and a retirement plan with employer contribution.
It is a fundamental policy of BAMKO not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, sexual orientation, legally protected medical condition, family care or medical leave status, veteran status, marital status, or any other basis protected by state, local, or federal laws. BAMKO makes reasonable accommodation for pregnant employees who request an accommodation with the advice of their healthcare provider for pregnancy, child birth, or related medical conditions.
It is the policy of the Company to base decisions to employ, recruit, hire, and promote solely upon an individual's qualifications relating to the requirements of the position for which the individual is being considered. The Company also strives to ensure that all personnel actions (such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, Company-sponsored training, promotions, terminations and disciplinary actions) are applied in a non- discriminatory manner.