• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure supporting our mission-critical applications. • Manage SQL Server environments hosted on AWS RDS and EC2, optimizing performance, tuning queries, and ensuring data reliability and availability. • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Terraform, PowerShell, or your tool of choice) to automate build, test, and deployment workflows. • Collaborate closely with Development, QA, Product Management, and Information Security teams to ensure smooth, secure releases and stable environments. • Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues using tools like CloudWatch, DataDog, and SIEM dashboards, driving root-cause analysis and proactive prevention. • Contribute to security and compliance initiatives by adhering to SOC 2 and CJIS-aligned policies, managing IAM roles, patching systems, and safeguarding secrets. • Participate in incident response activities, assisting with mitigation, root-cause investigation, and long-term resolution. • Document infrastructure configurations, procedures, and architecture for operational continuity and knowledge sharing. • Support continuous improvement by proposing new automation, cost optimization, and resilience strategies across environments.