[Remote] DevOps Engineer — AWS and GitHub

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Real Chemistry is a global agency focused on transforming healthcare through scientific expertise and creativity. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage AWS infrastructure and GitHub CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth transitions from prototype to production environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS reference architectures using services such as ECS/Fargate, EKS, Lambda, RDS, and S3
• Develop and operate GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with:
• + Staged deployment workflows
• + Environment protection rules
• + OIDC-based authentication to AWS
• Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) including:
• + Remote state backends
• + Module versioning
• + Drift detection
• Establish and operate environments that increase in level of pipeline complexity and security requirements as they progress, enforcing peer review and deployment controls
• Define and maintain “lift patterns” to transition apps from prototype environments into AWS-hosted staging and production
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, databases, backups) and lead HA/DR design for production systems
• Operate the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) leveraging AWS native and integrated tooling
• Implement cost governance practices:
• + Tagging strategies
• + Cost monitoring (AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets)
• Partner with Information Security on pipeline integrated controls (image scanning, secrets management, IAM aware pipelines)
• Provide onboarding support and office hours for developers preparing for production promotion
• Maintain runbooks and incident response playbooks; participate in on-call rotation

Skills

• 3+ years operating production workloads in AWS environments
• Strong experience with Terraform (IaC lifecycle, state management, modules)
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Working knowledge of: AWS IAM and least-privilege access design
• Working knowledge of: OIDC federation between GitHub and AWS
• Experience supporting SLAs, incident response, and on-call operations
• Experience with ECS/Fargate, EKS, or AWS Lambda
• Exposure to FinOps and AWS cost governance practices
• Experience productionizing AI assisted or low-code applications
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Replit, Cursor, Claude Code)

Benefits

• Offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long
• Generous holiday and paid time off
• Options for private medical, dental, and vison plans
• Support in saving for the future
• Mental wellness coaching and support
• Access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning
• Office locations in cities in the US, UK, and Europe with many employees and clients that serve as hubs where and when they need us
• Attendance in the office two days per week, either at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients for employees who are within an hour of one of our offices
• Real HART policy will apply if a new office opens near you
• Regions where people work remotely but come together quarterly for collaboration, culture and learning opportunities

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