Summit Human Capital is seeking a highly motivated Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to support our client in the Greater Richmond Region. This position offers the opportunity to design, automate, and deliver cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, driving technical excellence and governance across modern DevOps environments. The ideal candidate will meet the following criteria:

Requirements:

· 4+ years AWS DevOps experience: cloud infrastructure, automation, application delivery

· 4+ years GitLab CI/CD: designing pipelines, reusable templates

· 4+ years containerization/Kubernetes: Amazon EKS, Red Hat OpenShift familiarity

· Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar

· Java development support: automating builds, testing, security, deployments, releases

· Technical leadership: governance, mentorship, collaborative approach

Desired:

· Red Hat OpenShift administration/engineering

· Advanced Amazon EKS and AWS-native container platform

· DevSecOps: security scanning, approvals, compliance, quality gates in CI/CD

Responsibilities:

· Design/build/maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security, approvals, deployment, release

· Automate AWS infrastructure; support containerized workloads (EKS, Kubernetes, OpenShift)

· Partner with Java developers and engineering teams to improve deployment speed, reliability, security, developer experience

· Establish DevOps governance: embed standards and controls in automated workflows

· Serve as senior technical resource: architecture decisions, resolve complex cloud/pipeline/infrastructure issues

· Mentor Level II engineers, document best practices, promote knowledge sharing, simplicity, resiliency, continuous improvement

· Support observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions for production/infrastructure issues

· Collaborate with infrastructure, security, architecture, development, operations teams; limited travel to Richmond; on-call support as needed

The hourly pay range for this position is $60 – $70, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance; 401(k)/retirement plan; and other benefits per applicable laws.

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