AWS DevOps Engineer

EBSCO Industries, Inc. (EBSCO), headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the largest privately held and family-owned companies in the United States. EBSCO was founded in 1944 by an entrepreneur who was passionate about honoring our commitments to our customers, rejecting the status quo, and seeking to continuously improve our team. We continue to operate that way today, with a passion for our people and our businesses succeeding together. EBSCO has grown and evolved over time into a holding company with a global portfolio comprised of dozens of entities in over 15 separate industries/markets, including Information services, outdoor products, real estate, manufacturing and distribution, and insurance services. We provide valuable support services to our subsidiaries to support their growth. We hire passionate people, driven to grow, because we know the success of EBSCO depends on the long-term success of our businesses and our teams.

At EBSCO Industries, we're not just maintaining infrastructure-we're revolutionizing how technology empowers our business and delights our customers. Our Corporate IT team in Birmingham is seeking a forward-thinking DevOps Engineer who thrives at the intersection of development and operations excellence. If you're passionate about building resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure and ready to make an impact at one of Alabama's most respected companies, we want to hear from you!

As our DevOps Engineer, you'll be the driving force behind our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and system reliability. You'll build the foundations that allow our development teams to move fast while keeping our systems resilient, secure, and scalable.

What You'll Do

• Architect and Scale Cloud Solutions - Design and implement robust AWS infrastructure that powers our critical business applications, ensuring performance and reliability at every level
• Automate Everything - Create seamless CI/CD pipelines that take code from commit to production with confidence and precision
• Engineer for Visibility - Build comprehensive monitoring systems that provide real-time insights into application health and performance
• Champion Modern Application Delivery - Optimize deployment strategies for Next.js and Node.js applications that deliver exceptional user experiences
• Secure Our Digital Landscape - Implement industry best practices for infrastructure security and compliance

Required Skills:

• 3+ years experience with AWS core services including EC2, S3, RDS, and Route 53
• 3+ years experience building and maintaining Git-based pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), automate infrastructure and application deployments with Terraform and Ansible, and seamlessly integrate secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, Vault)
• Experience implementing real-time dashboards and alerts with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana; analyzing logs via CloudWatch Logs or ELK to drive rapid diagnostics
• Ability to optimize and deploying Next.js (SSR/ISR) and Node.js applications-whether serverless or containerized-ensuring reliable, repeatable releases
• Ability to configure DNS (Route 53, Cloudflare), SSL/TLS termination, and high-availability load balancing (ALB, NGINX, CloudFront)

What Sets You Apart

• AWS Certification - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect credentials
• DevSecOps Tooling Proficiency - Experience integrating code-scanning tools like SonarQube and Snyk, plus Keycloak for application-level security
• Performance & User-Centric Mindset - Talent for leveraging performance profiling, A/B testing, and user-engagement metrics to continuously improve the end-user experience

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex, pregnancy status, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

We comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law.