Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Automation Architect | Remote Contract Opportunity [ FastWater Staffing ]

About this role

📍 Location: Fully Remote (Maryland, U.S.)
📄 Type: Contract
🚀 Start: Immediate
💲 Compensation: TBD — based on skills and experience

### Important Screening Requirements

• This position requires eligibility to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship. (Green Card holder)
• Candidates must be willing to undergo fingerprinting and a government background investigation (CJIS-type clearance process).

### About the Role

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Automation Architect to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and deployment processes. This is a highly hands-on role focused on automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud-native operations.

### Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK
• Build and optimize automated deployment and testing workflows
• Develop observability, monitoring, and logging solutions
• Support containerized workloads using ECS and EKS/Kubernetes
• Create automation scripts using Python, Bash, and PowerShell
• Drive operational excellence and cloud platform reliability

### Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or related experience
• Strong experience with AWS cloud environments
• Hands-on expertise with Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK
• Experience with Kubernetes, EKS, and container platforms
• Strong scripting and automation skills

### Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Professional-level certification
• Experience leading cloud automation initiatives
• Deep knowledge of observability and monitoring platforms