Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: McLean, VA, USA

Requisition Number: RR-0005221

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Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (100% Hands-on)

We are seeking a high-octane, 100% hands-on AWS DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team. This is not an architectural or high-level strategy role; we need a "builder" who thrives in the terminal, writes clean Infrastructure as Code, and can manage the end-to-end lifecycle of production-grade ML and data platforms.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) and a proven track record of automating complex MLOps workflows. AWS Certifications are a significant plus.

Core Responsibilities (The "Must-Haves")

● EKS Mastery: Lead the end-to-end implementation and day-to-day operations of Amazon EKS, including cluster provisioning, networking, and hosting complex microservices/apps.

● Infrastructure as Code: Maintain and scale our environment using Terraform as the primary provider.

● MLOps Pipeline Engineering: Build and manage CI/CD pipelines specifically for Machine Learning, including automated model registry updates, feature store synchronization, and automated deployments.

● Cloud Security & Identity: Implement rigorous IAM best practices specifically for ML workloads and ensure data isolation through VPCs, subnets, and private endpoints.

● Data Persistence & Governance: Manage S3 (lifecycle policies, performance tiering), Secrets Manager, KMS encryption, and Parameter Store.

● Observability: Own the monitoring stack using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure system health and proactive alerting.

Technical Requirements & Skills

Infrastructure & Platforms:

● Primary: Amazon EKS, Terraform, Airflow (Orchestration).

● Secondary: Kubeflow or equivalent MLOps tooling.

Database & Analytics:

● Relational: RDS/Aurora (PostgreSQL/MySQL).

● NoSQL: DynamoDB (expert-level capacity planning and data modeling).

● Data Engineering: AWS Glue (ETL), EMR (EMR on EKS/Serverless).

Machine Learning Operations:

● Deep experience with Amazon SageMaker (training jobs, endpoints, pipelines, and notebooks).

Engineering Principles

We expect you to live and breathe the AWS 5 Pillars (The Well-Architected Framework):

1. Cost Optimization: Proactive management of cloud spend.

2. Performance Efficiency: Selection of evolved resource types based on workload.

3. Reliability: Designing for recovery and change management.

4. Resiliency: Implementing Multi-AZ/Multi-Region patterns.

5. Security: Operating under the principle of Least Privilege and cloud security best practices.

Qualifications

● Minimum 5+ years of experience in an AWS DevOps or Site Reliability role.

● Proven experience supporting Data Science teams and ML production environments.

● Ability to troubleshoot complex networking and container orchestration issues in real-time.

● Must be 100% hands-on.

Remote: 1

City: McLean

State: Virginia

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Company Profile:

Randstad Digital Advisory is a trusted digital enablement and consulting partner that facilitates accelerated transformation for businesses by providing tailored strategies, solutions, and partnerships to realize the most value from business objectives. We deliver for our clients to enable their businesses to thrive in today’s changing environment. It takes people, though, to support our clients and we pride ourselves on a workplace that thrives on collaboration and support. Our people are not only experts in their field but also kind, smart, fun and passionate about what they do. Teamwork isn't just encouraged - it's the way we operate. Join our team!

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