AWS DevOps Engineer / Remote / Aurora / Terraform / PHP / Linux
Overview:
As the first dedicated infrastructure hire for a remote digital fundraising platform, you will own reliability, security and scalability across multiple revenue-generating applications used by schools and libraries. You'll modernize infrastructure, enhance observability, and drive containerization and incident response in a multi-account AWS environment. This role supports a mission-driven platform and offers a high-impact, hands-on opportunity to shape deployment and security at scale. You'll work with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, resilient systems that power fundraising programs.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and secure a multi-account AWS environment
- Manage EC2, load balancing, and Auto Scaling
- Modernize legacy infrastructure via containerization
- Administer Aurora MySQL databases and replication strategies
- Manage networking, DNS, and access controls
- Build and improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Implement secrets management best practices
- Enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Lead incident response and root cause investigations
- Manage WAF policies, certificates, and overall infrastructure security
- Oversee daily AWS infrastructure administration, CI/CD, security, database support, monitoring and incident response
- Support cross-functional engineering teams during modernization initiatives
Key requirements:
- 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure experience
- Deep hands-on AWS experienceAWS Organizations, IAM, EC2, Aurora MySQL (RDS), ALB, and ASGCloudFormation or Terraform
- Strong Linux systems administration experience
- GitLab CI/CD and secrets management experience
- Production incident response and root cause analysis experience
- Experience supporting PHP and Laravel applications
- Experience building infrastructure as code from scratchAWSEC2Aurora MySQL (RDS)ECSECRCloudFormation