Virtasant (virtasant

Sr. DevOps Engineer (AWS / Terraform)

Austin, North America, US · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago

PythonBashAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDatadogDevOpsComplianceAgileHIPAA

About the role

Our client runs a healthcare platform processing sensitive clinical data, built entirely on AWS.
Their central DevOps team is the gateway for all infrastructure changes across ~8 engineering teams - every Terraform change, CI/CD pipeline, and infrastructure request in the organization routes through it.
The team is heavily loaded: senior engineers lose a significant share of their week to incoming requests, reviews, and operational fixes instead of their core platform initiatives.

Support common AWS request patterns: S3 buckets and lifecycle policies, SFTP/Transfer Family setups, Parameter Store/secrets, ECS service changes.

Must-Have Experience 7+ years in DevOps/platform / infrastructure engineering roles.
Experience with PR-driven IaC workflows ( Atlantis, Terraform Cloud, or similar ).
CI/CD literacy - able to debug pipeline failures and container build/deploy issues ( Docker required ).
Experience embedding as a contractor inside a client scrum team.

ECS, S3, IAM, VPC networking basics, CloudWatch.
You don't need every service - you need to be safe and fast in a large AWS estate.
CI/CD literacy - able to debug pipeline failures and container build/deploy issues ( Docker required ).
Scripting - Bash and/or Python for automation and one-off fixes.
Service temperament - this role is interrupt-driven by design.
You need to context-switch cheaply, communicate clearly with engineers from other teams, and take satisfaction from throughput and unblocking people.
Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice

Document what you fix; leave runbooks behind.
Nice-to-haves Experience in HIPAA- or otherwise-regulated environments (healthcare, fintech) - comfort with scoped access, change control, and compliance-gated workflows.

senior engineers lose a significant share of their week to incoming requests, reviews, and operational fixes instead of their core platform initiatives.
You will be the engineer who owns that incoming stream.
Embedded in the team's scrum, you'll take the operational backlog - infrastructure change requests, bug fixes, PR reviews, environment issues - so the platform engineers can stay on their roadmap.
This is a hands-on, high-throughput role for someone who enjoys clearing a queue well, not a project-ownership or architecture role on day one.
Those who prove themselves here have historically grown into larger scopes.
This role can consider candidates who are based either in Latin America OR in the USA.
If you live in any other part of the world, please don't apply, as we can't consider you.
We are NOT able to consider candidates on any kind of visa that requires sponsorship, like STEM OPT, H4 EAD, F-1 OPT, L-2S, CPT, etc.

t office hours Long-term, no-end-date Independent contractor agreement (if you live in the USA, you must be either a US citizen or a Green Card holder

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