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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Hays Specialist Recruitment LLC
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Audit Trail, Backup Devices, Bash Shell, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Network Segmentation, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Datadog, Delivery Pipeline, Large Language Models, Grafana, Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.hays.com/en-US/job-detail/senior-devops-engineer-atlanta_1187109

## About the Role

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship not available., * AWS: EC2, EKS/Kubernetes, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, Cognito, CloudWatch

 * Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation
 * Containers: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS
 * CI/CD: Modern deployment pipelines and automation
 * Security & Compliance: SOC 2 Type I/II, audit evidence, controls, access management
 * Disaster Recovery: RTO/RPO planning, backups, failover architecture, business continuity
 * Observability: CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
 * Automation: Python and Bash scripting
 * 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
 * Strong AWS production experience
 * Direct SOC 2 audit experience (Type I or Type II)
 * Built or managed compliance controls, audit logging, access controls, and evidence collection
 * Designed and tested disaster recovery/business continuity plans
 * Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code expertise
 * Kubernetes/EKS experience
 * Cloud security expertise (IAM, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation)
 * AWS Bedrock or AI/LLM infrastructure
 * Vector databases
 * Standing up a SOC 2 program from scratch
 * CISSP, CISM, or AWS Security certifications
 * GIS or geospatial data experience
 * Previous mentoring or technical leadership

## Description

* A strong target profile would be a Senior DevOps Engineer, Lead Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure Architect, or Site Reliability Engineer from a small-to-mid-sized SaaS company who has:
 * Led a SOC 2 initiative
 * Built AWS infrastructure using Terraform
 * Supported Kubernetes environments
 * Owned disaster recovery and security controls
 * Worked closely with engineering teams to support production systems
This role is likely best suited for a senior individual contributor who can serve as the organization's DevOps, security compliance, and infrastructure leader without needing a large team beneath them.
Our Client is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own AWS infrastructure, operational reliability, security, and compliance for their AI-powered commercial real estate platform, Augur. This is not a traditional DevOps role. The biggest priorities are:

 * Leading SOC 2 compliance efforts from a technical perspective
 * Building disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BCP) capabilities
 * Scaling and automating AWS infrastructure
 * Driving security, reliability, and operational excellence