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# DevOps Engineer - AWS and GitHub

- **Company:** Real Chemistry
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $60,000.0 - $80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Cyber Security, Databases, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, OpenID, Management of Software Versions, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Low-code, Terraform
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=806d9bc12b55823f

## About the Role

* 3+ years operating production workloads in AWS environments
 * Strong experience with Terraform (IaC lifecycle, state management, modules)
 * Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
 * Working knowledge of:
 + AWS IAM and least-privilege access design
 + OIDC federation between GitHub and AWS
 * Experience supporting SLAs, incident response, and on-call operations, * Experience with ECS/Fargate, EKS, or AWS Lambda
 * Exposure to FinOps and AWS cost governance practices
 * Experience productionizing AI assisted or low-code applications
 * Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Replit, Cursor, Claude Code)

## Description

* Build and maintain AWS reference architectures using services such as ECS/Fargate, EKS, Lambda, RDS, and S3.
 * Develop and operate GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with:
 + Staged deployment workflows
 + Environment protection rules
 + OIDC-based authentication to AWS
 * Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) including:
 + Remote state backends
 + Module versioning
 + Drift detection
 * Establish and operate environments that increase in level of pipeline complexity and security requirements as they progress, enforcing peer review and deployment controls.
 * Define and maintain "lift patterns" to transition apps from prototype environments into AWS-hosted staging and production.
 * Provision and manage AWS infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, databases, backups) and lead HA/DR design for production systems.
 * Operate the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) leveraging AWS native and integrated tooling.
 * Implement cost governance practices:
 + Tagging strategies
 + Cost monitoring (AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets)
 * Partner with Information Security on pipeline integrated controls (image scanning, secrets management, IAM aware pipelines).
 * Provide onboarding support and office hours for developers preparing for production promotion.
 * Maintain runbooks and incident response playbooks; participate in on-call rotation.


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