Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Resource Innovations is seeking a AWS DevOps Engineer. This is remote position requiring occasional in-person office meetings for candidates residing in one of the following metro areas: San Francisco CA, Chicago IL, Phoenix AZ, Denver CO, or Madison WI. This position will work on a wide range of SaaS products on AWS platform that fundamentally changes how utilities manage business processes and customer initiatives for energy efficiency, renewable energy, demands response and conservation. We are looking for candidates who want to work on things that make an impact on the world and are passionate about product craftsmanship.

We require candidates to currently reside in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not offering visa sponsorship or extensions for this position.

The Lead AWS DevOps Engineer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and managing AWS technology infrastructure leveraging cloud services and automation to ensure SaaS solutions are optimized for functionality, performance, and cost. This role will be responsible for developing and driving AWS cloud deployment, integration of new cloud services, CI/CD automation and pipelines.

As a member of the technology team, you will work to transform current cloud technology capabilities across portfolio of SaaS products and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will identify opportunities to leverage cloud architecture, identify new and emerging technologies and design platform that will optimize delivery of SaaS products.

Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we're constantly expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. With every step, we're leading the charge to power change.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Architecture & Strategy

  • Design, build, and evolve cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions to support our SaaS products.

  • Define and continuously improve standards for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational processes.

  • Lead the team in adopting modern practices like containerization, serverless computing, and Infrastructure as Code.

  • Drive the roadmap for DevOps tooling, automation, and scalability improvements.

• Hands‑On Engineering

  • Build and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable cloud environments.

  • Develop and integrate next‑generation CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated deployments and testing.

  • Implement configuration management, monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure proactive issue detection.

  • Optimize systems for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues in real time.

• Technical Leadership & Collaboration

  • Act as a technical lead and mentor for the DevOps team—review designs, guide implementation, and share best practices.

  • Work closely with engineering and product teams to support new features, releases, and operational improvements.

  • Participate in sprint planning, stand‑ups, and cross‑team discussions to prioritize DevOps initiatives.

  • Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

• 8+ years of hands‑on DevOps experience with AWS cloud.

• Proven experience leading or mentoring a DevOps team.

• Deep technical expertise in:

  • AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Beanstalk, CloudFront, Route 53, Glacier, Lambda, EventBridge.

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.

  • CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git, automation pipelines.

  • Linux administration and scripting: Bash, Python.

  • Security and compliance: ITIL, NIST, SOC2.

  • Monitoring and logging: Grafana, CloudWatch, log analysis.

  • Messaging/queueing systems: SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, SES.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).

• Experience with serverless architectures.

• Ability to design infrastructure from scratch and scale existing platforms.

• Strong problem‑solving skills and adaptability to new technologies.
  
  

• Nice to Have

  • Experience with AWS Transfer Family.

  • Hands‑on experience in architecting modern SaaS infrastructure.

Benefits

About Resource Innovations

Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we’re constantly expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. With every step, we’re leading the charge to power change.

Resource Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. In addition to federal law requirements, Resource Innovations complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company does work.

Compensation & Benefits

Resource Innovations offers competitive salaries based on a candidate's skills, experience and qualifications for the position.  The compensation range for the base salary for this position is $135,000 - $150,000.  In addition to base pay, employees are eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.  The stated salary represents the expected compensation for this position.  Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as the candidate's experience, education and location. 

We also offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes three weeks of paid vacation per year; paid holidays; a 401(k)-retirement plan with employer matching; health, dental and vision insurance; and other supplemental benefits. 

Employment with Resource Innovations is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check and reference check. If applicable to the position, a pre-employment drug screen may also be required.

The above job description and job requirements are not intended to be all inclusive. Resource Innovations retains the right to make changes or adjustments to job descriptions and/or job requirements at any time without notice.