Engineer, Application Operations (Remote) at Quest… · Indianapo…

Engineer, Application Operations (Remote)

Location: Indianapolis, IN, United States

• Management of DevOps for AWS (Amazon Web Services); Owning infrastructure code; making required changes
• Release Management: Take releases, own process and relevant improvements, and drive to success;
• Ability to drive process in additional platforms over time

Application Operations

• Familiarity with configuring AWS services for example:
  • Lambdas
  • DynamoDB
  • API Gateway
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • SES
  • Cognito
  • IAM
  • S3
  • EventBridge

Cybersecurity

• Distill findings from security team and address any actions
• Map security callouts raised by security team to applicable AWS service
• Create actionable list of items
• Execute against the list of items to resolve security findings
• Continuously monitor and address findings from automated scans

Reporting & Observability

• Continuously maintaining monitoring and alerting for various AWS services to ensure quick triage by the team in the event of failure or outage
• Configuration of notification mechanisms

Required Work Experience:

• 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred)

Knowledge:

• Strong understanding of serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)
• Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization — OAuth 2.0, JWT, PKCE, mutual TLS, API key management
• Familiarity with OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, or SOC2 controls

Skills:

• Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, ArgoCD, or similar). Writing associated configuration files to accommodate build/deployment requirements
• Experience with security tooling — SAST/DAST scanners, dependency auditing, secrets management, WAF configuration
• Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Strong scripting (Bash, Python, or Node.js) for automation, incident response tooling, and reporting
• Experience managing DLQs, event replay, and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• HIPAA-compliant infrastructure experience
• AWS Security Specialty or equivalent certification
• Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, or CloudWatch Logs Insights at scale)
• FinOps awareness — correlating cost with operational and security posture

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience