Lead DevOps Engineer - W2 Only
We have a 6-month contract to hire for a Lead Software Engineer with experience in:
AWS - AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, and RDS (Postgres, Oracle).
Need Nodejs/Typescript for API
React
Terraform
API Gateway
Lambda
ECS Fargate
DynamoDB
Docker
Splunk / Dynatrace – SRE APM - Observability and Operations: Familiar with tools like Dynatrace and Splunk for APM, logging, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring. Experience supporting production environments is essential.
100% Remote.
Notes:
A traditional SRE candidate will likely not be a good fit here. What we’re looking for is a strong software engineer who has evolved into a platform/DevOps/SRE hybrid role. Sometimes they start billing themselves as Cloud Architects/Engineers. This is a deeply technical position that requires experience building full-stack systems on AWS, not just maintaining them.
• The ideal candidate profile looks like this: Software Engineering Core: Primarily comes from a backend engineering background, ideally with experience in TypeScript (Node.js) for API development. Some exposure to React.js for internal tools is helpful but not critical.
• Infrastructure as Code: Able to write infrastructure via Terraform — not just modify existing modules, but create new IaC that aligns with AWS best practices.
• AWS-Native Architecture: Demonstrated ability to independently design, build, and deploy applications using AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, and RDS (Postgres, Oracle).
• Solution Architecture Ownership: Comfortable taking a high-level business need, proposing and documenting an AWS-based architecture (we use Lucidchart), presenting it to the team, and then delivering it end-to-end.
• Observability and Operations: Familiar with tools like Dynatrace and Splunk for APM, logging, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring. Experience supporting production environments is essential.
• Data Migration & Replatforming: Experience migrating on-premise, Docker-hosted workloads to AWS is a significant plus — especially when dealing with tightly coupled, data-intensive, synchronous systems being refactored to event-driven, serverless architectures.
• Soft Skills & Leadership:Strong product thinking — able to deconstruct ambiguous or vague requirements and identify optimal solutions.
• Clear technical communication — expected to lead architectural discussions and mentor other engineers.
• Team-first mindset — we operate on a "build it, own it" philosophy. Candidates should be comfortable owning their work from design through to production support.
• Experience breaking down features into executable stories and driving iterative delivery.
Domain Context: The team provides customer identity and access management (CIAM) for member portals. This includes SSO services, registration, login, RBAC, and audit logging. We provide both the Identity platform and the surrounding API ecosystem that supports web teams.
• Key Upcoming Project: A large-scale replatforming of our CIAM APIs from an on-prem, Kubernetes-based system to AWS-native services. The project includes:Migrating workloads to serverless infrastructure
• Refactoring APIs for event-driven architecture
• Implementing multi-region DR (warm standby) with data replication/synchronization to on-premise Oracle
• Managing complex data and connectivity migrations
We have a 6-month contract to hire for a Lead Software Engineer with experience in:
AWS - AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, and RDS (Postgres, Oracle).
Need Nodejs/Typescript for API
React
Terraform
API Gateway
Lambda
ECS Fargate
DynamoDB
Docker
Splunk / Dynatrace – SRE APM - Observability and Operations: Familiar with tools like Dynatrace and Splunk for APM, logging, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring. Experience supporting production environments is essential.
100% Remote.
Notes:
A traditional SRE candidate will likely not be a good fit here. What we’re looking for is a strong software engineer who has evolved into a platform/DevOps/SRE hybrid role. Sometimes they start billing themselves as Cloud Architects/Engineers. This is a deeply technical position that requires experience building full-stack systems on AWS, not just maintaining them.
• The ideal candidate profile looks like this: Software Engineering Core: Primarily comes from a backend engineering background, ideally with experience in TypeScript (Node.js) for API development. Some exposure to React.js for internal tools is helpful but not critical.
• Infrastructure as Code: Able to write infrastructure via Terraform — not just modify existing modules, but create new IaC that aligns with AWS best practices.
• AWS-Native Architecture: Demonstrated ability to independently design, build, and deploy applications using AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, and RDS (Postgres, Oracle).
• Solution Architecture Ownership: Comfortable taking a high-level business need, proposing and documenting an AWS-based architecture (we use Lucidchart), presenting it to the team, and then delivering it end-to-end.
• Observability and Operations: Familiar with tools like Dynatrace and Splunk for APM, logging, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring. Experience supporting production environments is essential.
• Data Migration & Replatforming: Experience migrating on-premise, Docker-hosted workloads to AWS is a significant plus — especially when dealing with tightly coupled, data-intensive, synchronous systems being refactored to event-driven, serverless architectures.
• Soft Skills & Leadership:Strong product thinking — able to deconstruct ambiguous or vague requirements and identify optimal solutions.
• Clear technical communication — expected to lead architectural discussions and mentor other engineers.
• Team-first mindset — we operate on a "build it, own it" philosophy. Candidates should be comfortable owning their work from design through to production support.
• Experience breaking down features into executable stories and driving iterative delivery.
Domain Context: The team provides customer identity and access management (CIAM) for member portals. This includes SSO services, registration, login, RBAC, and audit logging. We provide both the Identity platform and the surrounding API ecosystem that supports web teams.
• Key Upcoming Project: A large-scale replatforming of our CIAM APIs from an on-prem, Kubernetes-based system to AWS-native services. The project includes:Migrating workloads to serverless infrastructure
• Refactoring APIs for event-driven architecture
• Implementing multi-region DR (warm standby) with data replication/synchronization to on-premise Oracle
• Managing complex data and connectivity migrations
