DevOps Engineer — AWS and GitHub

Real Chemistry is looking to hire a DevOps Engineer for AWS & GitHub! This Engineer owns the infrastructure path that takes applications from AI‑assisted prototypes into Real Chemistry managed AWS hosted environments (staging and production). Builds and operates GitHub native CI/CD pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and observability tooling that make governance frameworks executable for client‑facing products. This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, and OIDC‑based authentication to AWS.
• Manage infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform) including remote state backends, module versioning, and 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, including tagging strategies and 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• AWS IAM and least‑privilege access design.
• OIDC federation between GitHub and AWS.
• Experience supporting SLAs, incident response, and on‑call operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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).

Additional Notes

• Primary Platform: AWS + GitHub.
• On‑call: Participation in a shared rotation supporting production systems (details provided during interview process).

Compensation

Pay Range: $60,000-$80,000. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Benefits

Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks tailored to your region, including paid time off, medical, dental, vision plans, mental wellness coaching, and online learning courses.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.