AWS DevOps Engineer

Looking for a career where hard work is valued, and your ideas and feedback are part of the way we operate daily? Want to bring your skills to a company that encourages teamwork and champions continued education and process improvement?

Atlas Tech, a veteran-owned IT company serving multiple DoD customers in support of America's warfighters, is seeking a skilled and motivated AWS DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic IT team. You will contribute to the design, deployment, and optimization of mission-critical AWS infrastructure. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in DevOps practices, cloud automation, and DoD security compliance to ensure our enterprise-wide human resources system remains secure, scalable, and resilient.

Fully remote position available to residents in AL, CA, CT, FL, GA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, NC, OR, RI, SC, TX, VA, DC, WV, NJ.

Travel up to 10%

You Will:

• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using AWS native services to support rapid and secure software delivery.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.

• Ensure DoD security compliance by implementing and maintaining STIG-hardened environments, including regular security posture reviews, vulnerability assessments, and remediation actions.

• Maintain system integrity through patch management, configuration baselines, and ongoing monitoring to meet DoD cybersecurity requirements.

• Collaborate with security and operations teams to enforce governance policies, access control, encryption, and logging.

• Optimize system performance and costs through proactive monitoring, alerting, and tuning of AWS resources.

• Develop custom automation scripts using Python, Bash, or PowerShell to support build, deploy, monitoring, and security hardening workflows.

• Support disaster recovery planning, implement backup strategies, and test recovery scenarios for continuity of operations.

You Have:

• U.S. Citizenship

• A minimum of a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret level Security Clearance

• Security+ CE Certification

• (DoD 8140 qualification for the assigned work role, or the ability to obtain it within 6 months of hire)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience

• Proven experience as an AWS DevOps Engineer, with exposure to Oracle-backed systems

• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)