Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Automation Architect at Fastwater Staffing

Setup: Remote
Location: Virginia · Maryland
Type: Contract
Level: Senior
Posted: Jun 24, 2026

Description

Fastwater Staffing is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Automation Architect to join their team. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in CI/CD pipeline design and automation, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK, Automated deployment and testing workflows, Observability, monitoring, and logging solutions, AWS ECS and EKS/Kubernetes, and scripting with Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell. They should also have experience building and managing scalable AWS cloud environments.

Required Skills

DevOps
Cloud Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
CI/CD pipeline design and automation
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
Automated deployment and testing workflows
Observability, monitoring, and logging solutions
AWS ECS and EKS / Kubernetes
Scripting with Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell
scalable AWS cloud environments

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience.
Preferred Qualifications: AWS Professional Certification (Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional).
Experience with enterprise-scale cloud automation and platform engineering.

About Fastwater Staffing

Fastwater Staffing

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Senior contract engineers for satellite, defense, and autonomous-systems programs: payload, RF, FPGA, structures, mission analysis, and cleared talent. ITAR & CGP fluent. US · Canada · Europe.