Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Not accepting H1B OPT/CPT)

About the job

***This role is NOT open to C2C. The position is FTE only and is unable to consider sponsorship now or in the future***

Job Title: Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Not accepting H1B OPT/CPT)

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Accepting Visa: L2S, Green Card and US Citizen (Strictly not accepting H1B, OPT/CPT)

Position Description

Maes solutions is seeking a Senior AWS Devops Engineer to support a critical cloud modernization and application migration initiative within a large-scale services environment. This role will focus primarily on designing, implementing, validating, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines while supporting the migration of legacy workloads to a target-state AWS architecture.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Maes solutions is seeking a Senior AWS CI/CD & Application Developer to support a critical cloud modernization and application migration initiative within a large-scale services environment. This role will focus primarily on designing, implementing, validating, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines while supporting the migration of legacy workloads to a target-state AWS architecture.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience building CI/CD solutions using GitLab and Terraform, strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services, and a solid software development background. Working closely with business stakeholders and technical teams, the successful candidate will help accelerate a time-sensitive decommissioning project by designing scalable deployment processes, automating infrastructure, supporting cloud-native applications, and resolving complex technical issues throughout the software development lifecycle.

This position requires a highly independent and experienced professional who can quickly understand application workflows, recommend technical solutions, and drive project deliverables with minimal oversight.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of overall IT and software development experience

• Experience developing and supporting enterprise applications

• Prior experience in cloud-based development and CI/CD implementation projects preferred

• Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Terraform

• Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud services, including services such as: Lambda ECS Fargate EMR SNS SQS AWS Batch EventBridge CloudWatch

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and cloud automation

• Solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies and best practices

• Ability to analyze application workflows and design deployment strategies for cloud-based environments

• Strong software development background with experience supporting enterprise-scale applications

• Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues across development, testing, and deployment environments

• Proficiency with source control, branching strategies, and release management processes

• Working knowledge of Python development and scripting

• Experience collaborating directly with business stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently on complex initiatives

• Familiarity with cloud migration or legacy application modernization projects

Desired Skillset:

• SAS or SAS Grid experience

• Jupyter Notebook and/or AWS SageMaker experience

• Financial Services industry experience

• Experience supporting large-scale application decommissioning or migration programs

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.