Senior Infrastructure Test Engineer, DevOps
RemoteUnited States or El Dorado Hills, California, United States
Job Summary
Design and maintain automated test frameworks for AWS infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment workflows. Validate changes across VPCs, IAM, security groups, and load balancers while building tests into CI/CD pipelines to catch configuration and deployment defects before production. Develop automated integration, regression, and failure-recovery tests for containerized and Kubernetes environments, analyzing logs and telemetry to troubleshoot issues and produce reproducible defect reports. Partner with DevOps and Platform teams to strengthen automated validation and support audit readiness by generating technical evidence against STIG, CIS, and compliance requirements.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as an SDET, Software Engineer in Test, Infrastructure Test Engineer or similarly automation-focused engineering role
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, NAT gateways, security groups and IAM
- Strong experience testing or validating infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible or similar technologies
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, Go or another language used for test automation and infrastructure validation
- Experience building automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar platforms
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of infrastructure testing, configuration validation, integration testing and failure-recovery scenarios
- Experience troubleshooting cloud and infrastructure issues using logs, metrics and observability platforms such as Datadog
- Familiarity with security hardening and compliance requirements such as CIS benchmarks, DISA STIGs, FedRAMP, SOC 2 or ISO 27001
- Strong understanding of Git-based development workflows and automated software delivery practices
- Ability to work closely with DevOps, Platform Engineering, Security and Compliance teams to diagnose complex technical issues
- Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to improve test automation, debugging, technical analysis and documentation
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL metro areas
Desired Qualifications
- Experience validating infrastructure in FedRAMP High, DoD, IL5 or similarly regulated cloud environments
- Experience with automated infrastructure testing frameworks such as Terratest, pytest or similar tools
- Experience testing Kubernetes infrastructure, container security or deployment resilience
- Familiarity with vulnerability scanning, compliance drift detection or SIEM integrations
- Experience with AWS GovCloud and/or Azure Government
- Familiarity with secrets management, IAM, PAM or zero-trust security architectures
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.