Sr. DevOps Engineer (AWS / Terraform)
Virtasant · Austin, TX
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Jul 2, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits inside a central DevOps team supporting a healthcare platform on AWS, absorbing the high volume of day-to-day operational work — Terraform PR reviews, infrastructure change requests, IAM and permissions updates, CI/CD troubleshooting, and alert triage — so that senior platform engineers can focus on longer-term initiatives. It suits an experienced infrastructure engineer comfortable with interrupt-driven work, Terraform, and core AWS services who takes satisfaction in throughput and unblocking others rather than owning large architectural projects.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,350–8,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (11)
The role is structured as a long-term independent contractor agreement (no end date), not a salaried full-time position — classified as Contract accordingly.
The posting accepts candidates in Latin America OR the USA; the US-based flag of true is set per caller instruction treating this as a national remote US role.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is heavily operational (triage, PR reviews, IaC change requests) but Terraform authoring and CI/CD debugging are the core daily activities, which lean toward 15-1252 (Software Developers) over 15-1244 (Systems Administrators). Medium confidence; 15-1244 is a credible runner-up.
Bash and Python are listed together as a single scripting requirement ('Bash and/or Python'); emitted as one skill with Python in alternatives.
Atlantis is listed as the primary PR-driven IaC workflow tool with 'Terraform Cloud, or similar' as explicit alternatives.
Datadog and Kubernetes appear only under the 'Nice-to-haves' section.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
HIPAA/regulated-environment experience and FinOps exposure are listed as nice-to-haves but name no specific tool — omitted from the skills list per schema rules (no concrete named technology).
VPC networking and Parameter Store/Secrets Manager appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than the requirements block; they are covered by the broader AWS hard gate and not emitted as separate skills.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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