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DevOps Engineer (AWS)

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Job Description & Details

The demand for cloud‑native expertise is soaring as companies modernize their infrastructure, and DevOps professionals with AWS know‑how are at the forefront of this shift. This contract role in Mount Laurel offers a chance to own end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines for a fast‑growing media analysis platform. If you thrive on automation, security, and rapid deployments, this 9‑month opportunity is a perfect fit.

Job Summary

We are seeking a hands‑on DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain AWS‑based CI/CD pipelines, automate monitoring and health‑checks, and ensure secure, reliable deployments of microservice‑driven media analysis components. The role collaborates closely with developers, product managers, and business stakeholders while operating in a fast‑paced, locally‑based environment.

Top 3 Critical Skills Table

Skill Why it's critical Mastery Level
AWS Cloud Services Powers all production and staging environments; deep knowledge ensures cost‑effective, secure scaling. Senior
CI/CD Pipeline Development (Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI) Enables rapid, repeatable releases and reduces manual errors across dev, test, and prod. Mid
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) Guarantees version‑controlled, reproducible infrastructure and fast environment spin‑up. Mid

Interview Preparation

  1. Design a secure CI/CD pipeline on AWS using Jenkins and Terraform.
    What the interviewer is looking for: Understanding of IAM roles, secret management, IaC integration, and pipeline hardening.
  2. Explain how you achieve zero‑downtime deployments with Kubernetes and Helm.
    What the interviewer is looking for: Knowledge of rolling updates, health probes, canary releases, and chart versioning.
  3. Describe your approach to monitoring and auto‑remediating a failing microservice in production.
    What the interviewer is looking for: Experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, alert routing, and automated rollback or scaling.
  4. Compare Ansible and Chef for configuration management in a multi‑cloud environment.
    What the interviewer is looking for: Insight into agentless vs. agent‑based models, idempotency, and ease of integration with CI/CD.
  5. Walk through troubleshooting a deployment that works locally but fails in the test environment.
    What the interviewer is looking for: Systematic debugging steps, environment parity checks, log analysis, and root‑cause identification.

Resume Optimization

  • DevOps
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Jenkins
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Linux/Unix

Application Strategy

When reaching out to the recruiter, send a concise email that starts with a friendly greeting, attach your resume, and clearly highlight your top three relevant skills (e.g., AWS, CI/CD pipeline automation, Infrastructure as Code). Reference specific projects where you built secure pipelines or automated cloud deployments, and mention that you have the required local NJ eligibility and can provide the requested NJ driver’s license copy.

Career Roadmap

Current Role Typical Experience Core Focus Next Position
DevOps Engineer (AWS) 3‑5 years CI/CD, IaC, Cloud Ops Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer 5‑8 years Multi‑cloud strategy, team mentorship DevOps Lead / Manager
DevOps Lead / Manager 8+ years Architecture governance, cross‑functional leadership Director of Platform Engineering