AWS DevOps Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer at Bank of America

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Job Description

The AWS DevOps Engineer plays a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that supports high‑availability enterprise applications. This role partners closely with project teams, Solutions Architects, and technical SMEs across Bank of America to deliver robust, secure, and scalable AWS environments. The ideal candidate brings strong, hands on AWS engineering experience, deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, and the ability to translate architectural requirements into well‑designed cloud implementations.

This job is responsible for configuring complex software delivery automation. Key responsibilities include ensuring software deployments are configured to meet access, ownership, and authentication standards. This job may modify code for software deployment automation and ensures software promotion pipelines for complex/high availability applications follow Continuous Delivery best practices. Job expectations include the ability to integrate development, testing practices, software delivery tools, and runtime application standards at the bank.

Responsibilities

• Configures and maintains the set of tools and services that provide Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) services and validates access control mechanisms for the Software and Infrastructure Engineering team throughout the software development lifecycle
• Reviews the configuration of applications servers to confirm that CI/CD service platform onboarding pre-requisites are available and configured properly
• Monitors and responds to alerts based on the key performance indicators (KPI) for the services supporting CI/CD and escalated events and issues from DevOps Engineers, creating issues and action-plan summaries for stakeholders
• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation optional).
• Implement and optimize AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and related components.
• Ensure all infrastructure meets enterprise standards for security, access control, authentication, and governance.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Infrastructure teams (Network, Load Balancing, Storage, IAM, Middleware, DBAs, SRE) to ensure successful cloud deployments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with TerraForm and AWS
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles
• Experience with Git and version control workflows
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
• Understanding of container technologies (Docker, ECS, EKS)
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions
• Strong Excel and Visio skills
• Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or similar languages
• Experience with secrets management and infrastructure security
• Understanding of networking concepts on AWS
• Experience with configuration management tools
• Understanding of software development lifecycle
• Ability to design architectural solutions for complex technology problems using available and emerging technologies
• Ability to work with various departments in a large organization to facilitate the orderly execution of a proposed project plan

Desired Qualifications

• OS management experience (Windows and Linux)
• Middleware (Apache, Weblogic, Websphere, IIS, etc.)
• Databases (Postgres, RDS, Redis , Oracle, MSSQL)
• Load Balancing (F5, AVI, Nginx, etc.)
• Network (TCPIP, Firewalls, DNS, etc.)
• Storage (Local, SAN, NAS, s3, etc.)
• Active Directory and access management
• Cloud infrastructure and virtualization
• Up to date understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• Ansible experience
• Scripting (BASH, Powershell, etc.) experience
• Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Adaptability
• Application Development
• Influence
• Innovative Thinking
• Project Management
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management

Key skills/competency

• AWS
• DevOps
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD
• Containerization
• Cloud Security
• Automation
• Networking
• Git