DevOps / SRE / DevSecOps Engineer (AWS) – Remote, Latin America

About the role

Bluelight is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps Engineer to join its fast‑growing consultancy team. The role is fully remote for candidates located in Latin America and focuses on designing, operating, and securing cloud‑native applications for a diverse client base.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, S3).
• Operate Aurora/PostgreSQL clusters in production, handling multi‑AZ failover, read replicas, and replica‑lag monitoring.
• Develop Infrastructure‑as‑Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Containerize applications with Docker and orchestrate workloads on ECS/Fargate.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated deployments, rollback procedures, and testing.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch) and conduct load testing (k6).
• Lead security initiatives: vulnerability scanning, secrets management, compliance hardening, and support SOC 2 audit evidence.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, incident response, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvement of reliability.

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or DevSecOps roles.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Ability to overlap US business hours.
• Extreme ownership, accountability, and client‑focused dedication.

Required skills

• AWS services (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, S3).
• PostgreSQL/Aurora administration.
• Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Docker and container orchestration.
• CI/CD pipeline creation and automation.
• Monitoring and observability tools (OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch).
• Load testing tools (k6).
• Security tooling for vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and compliance.
• Experience supporting SOC 2 audits and incident response.