Senior DevOps Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 17, 2026.
Role Description :
Position Summary :
We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps / AWS Engineer to design, automate, and manage cloud infrastructure for an AWS-native, event-driven Annuity Reinsurance Platform.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, security, monitoring, and production operations, preferably within insurance, reinsurance, or financial services.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, or AWS DevOps services.
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes.
- Support event-driven architectures using EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions.
- Implement cloud security using IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and Security Hub.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch.
- Support disaster recovery, backup, high availability, incident management, and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, data, security, and product teams.
- Automate operational processes and maintain deployment, monitoring, and recovery runbooks.
Required Skills :
- 5+ years of DevOps / Cloud / SRE experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
- Strong expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD.
- Experience with EKS/ECS, Lambda, S3, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
- Excellent troubleshooting, automation, and communication skills.
Preferred Experience :
- Insurance / Reinsurance / Life Insurance / Annuity platforms.
- Financial services and regulated production environments.
- Kafka, Datadog, Splunk, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry.
- FinOps and AWS cost optimization.
- Multi-account AWS and SaaS architectures.
Ideal Candidate :
- A hands-on DevOps / AWS Engineer who can build and operate secure, scalable, highly available cloud platforms and contribute effectively from MVP development through enterprise-scale production.
Shift :
- 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM.
Skills :
- AWS, CI/CD, Kubernetes.
Skills
DevOps, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipeline, Git, CloudFormation, Docker, DynamoDB, Site Reliability, Jenkins, AWS Infrastructure