DevOps / Platform Engineer — Deliver Scalable CI/CD Automation

We're looking for a seasoned AWS DevOps Engineer to modernize and streamline our delivery pipeline for a complex web product.

Our goal is reliable

daily production deployments by implementing robust CI/CD, zero-downtime deployment strategies, shift-left QA automation, integrated security scanning, and feature-flag based releases.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines on AWS (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy).
• Implement blue/green (or canary) deployments with fast rollback for critical services.
• Integrate automated smoke, regression, API, and UI tests into PR/commit workflows with quality gates.
• Integrate SAST (and optionally DAST) into CI/CD (SonarQube, Snyk, GitHub Advanced Security, etc.).
• Implement and operationalize feature flags (LaunchDarkly, Unleash, or similar) to decouple deploy from release.
• Improve deployment frequency and reduce lead time in collaboration with dev + QA teams.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting across environments (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, etc.).
• Document standards, runbooks, and best practices for engineering and QA.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on AWS production experience (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM).
• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines with automated tests, approvals, and quality/security gates.
• Experience with blue/green or canary deployments using AWS services or related tooling.
• Familiarity with QA automation integration and test orchestration in pipelines.
• Practical SAST integration experience (SonarQube, Snyk, GHAS, etc.).
• Experience using feature flags in production environments.
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation ok).
• Scripting skills (Python/Bash) and strong written communication.

Success Outcomes

• Reduce deployment time from manual/lengthy processes to a few hours end-to-end.
• Enable safe, repeatable

daily production deployments with clear quality and security gates.

• Establish reusable patterns (pipelines, IaC modules, feature flag strategy, observability) across services.

Environment

AWS-hosted web application; tooling is flexible based on your recommendations.

What to Include in Your Proposal

• 2–3 examples of similar AWS DevOps projects (CI/CD + blue/green/canary + feature flags).
• How you increased deployment frequency and reduced lead time in prior work.
• High-level plan covering: current-state assessment → CI/CD + tests + SAST → deployment strategy rollout → feature flags → monitoring/runbooks.
• Preferred AWS toolset and an estimated timeline/milestones to reach daily deploy capability.

Contract duration of 1 to 3 months. with 30 hours per week.

Mandatory skills:

CI/CD, Deployment Automation, Docker, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, CI/CD Platform, DevOps, Application Release Automation, Git, macOS