An AWS DevOps Engineer is needed to become the first dedicated infrastructure hire supporting a digital fundraising platform used by thousands of schools and libraries across the country. This fully remote role operates on Central Time hours and will own the reliability, security, and scalability of multiple revenue-generating applications that help educational organizations raise funds through literacy-focused programs.
The environment includes AWS, GitLab CI/CD, Aurora MySQL, PHP and Laravel applications, CloudFormation, Tailscale, and Cloudflare. This position will drive infrastructure modernization, security improvements, observability initiatives, containerization efforts, and incident response practices across a growing platform.
Required Skills & Experience 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure experience
Deep hands-on AWS experience
AWS Organizations, IAM, EC2, Aurora MySQL (RDS), Application Load Balancers, and Auto Scaling Groups
CloudFormation 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 scratch
Desired Skills & Experience CDC or real-time replication tools such as Epsio or Debezium
Tailscale or similar zero-trust networking platforms
Payment processing or PCI-adjacent infrastructure experience
Experience as a first dedicated DevOps hire
Experience using AI-assisted coding or operations tools
Ruby, Rails, C#, or .NET experience
What You Will Be Doing Administer and secure a multi-account AWS environment
Manage EC2 infrastructure, load balancing, and Auto Scaling
Modernize legacy infrastructure through containerization initiatives
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 capabilities
Lead incident response and root cause investigations
Manage WAF policies, certificates, and overall infrastructure security
Tech Breakdown
AWS, EC2, Aurora MySQL (RDS), ECS, ECR, CloudFormation, Terraform, Linux, GitLab CI/CD, CloudWatch, IAM, S3, ElastiCache, Systems Manager, Tailscale, Cloudflare, Route 53, PHP, Laravel, Apache, Nginx, Epsio.
Daily Responsibilities AWS infrastructure administration
CI/CD pipeline management
Security and access management
Database administration and support
Monitoring and incident response
Networking and DNS operations
Infrastructure modernization initiatives
Cross-functional engineering support
The Offer Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Fully Remote
Work Arrangement: Remote, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM Central Time