Cloud DevOps Engineer / Architect - AWS

Job Title: Cloud DevOps Engineer / Architect

Location: [New Jersey | Remote] 

DataEconomy is seeking highly skilled Cloud DevOps Engineers / Architects with deep Terraform expertise and a proven track record in automating and operating enterprise-scale infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. This is a critical role supporting tier 1 financial applications, with an emphasis on security, high availability, and automation at scale.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate mastery of Terratest, extensive experience in integrating with security and certificate management tools such as Ping, HashiCorp Vault, and Venafi, and a strong understanding of AWS, DevOps toolchains, and infrastructure security.

Key Responsibilities

·         Design, develop, and maintain scalable Terraform modules for infrastructure provisioning on AWS.

·         Implement Terratest-based testing for infrastructure validation and enforce best practices.

·         Build and maintain secure, resilient infrastructure for financial and mission-critical applications.

·         Integrate infrastructure workflows with security platforms (e.g., Ping, Vault, Venafi) for certificate management and identity federation.

·         Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.

·         Support application migration of critical financial systems to AWS cloud platforms.

·         Collaborate with platform, security, and networking teams to ensure compliance and operational excellence.

·         Provide technical leadership in driving automation, observability, and DevOps maturity.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

·         5+ years hands-on experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and remote backends.

·         7+ years of DevOps experience with tools such as Jenkins, Git, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes.

·         3+ years experience working with core AWS services (EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, EKS, etc.).

·         5+ years experience in networking, EKS, AWS Firewall Manager, and AFT.

·         5+ years experience architecting and deploying high-availability financial trading platforms.

·         3+ years implementing or supporting financial systems, with emphasis on reliability and security.

·         6+ years of designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for critical systems using modern tools.

·         4+ years of experience migrating financial IT applications to AWS cloud environments.

·         Hands-on experience integrating with HashiCorp Vault, Venafi, and PingFederate or similar tools for certificate and secret management.

Preferred Qualifications

·         Experience with Terragrunt and managing IaC across multi-account AWS environments.

·         Familiarity with AWS Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform (AFT).

·         Exposure to regulated industries (finance, healthcare) with compliance standards (e.g., SOX, PCI-DSS).

·         Experience with infrastructure observability and tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.

·         Strong communication skills and experience in lea