Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - AI Platform Enablement

About Suffolk

Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates and invests. Suffolk is an end-to-end business that provides value throughout the entire project lifecycle by leveraging its core construction management services with vertical service lines that include real estate capital investment, design, self-perform construction services, technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies) and innovation research/development.

Suffolk - America's Contractor - is a national company with more than $5.0 billion in annual revenue, 2,600 employees, and main offices in Boston (headquarters), New York City, Miami, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Estero, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego. Suffolk manages some of the most complex, sophisticated projects in the country, serving clients in every major industry sector, including healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, transportation/aviation, government, mission critical and commercial. Suffolk is privately held and is led by founder, chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #8 on ENR's list of "Top CM-at-Risk Contractors." For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.

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Role Overview

We are seeking a seasoned AWS DevOps Engineer to join our growing AI Platform team, responsible for building and operating the next-generation Agentic AI infrastructure that powers intelligent automation across the enterprise.

This individual will play a key role in establishing the DevOps, security, and compliance foundations for our AWS-based AI platform - while working collaboratively with both the AI Studio engineering team and the Enterprise IT organization to ensure governance, reliability, and speed of innovation.

The ideal candidate combines deep AWS technical expertise with a pragmatic, people-oriented approach to bridge between innovation and enterprise IT standards.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting AI development, model orchestration, and agentic systems (e.g., Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway).
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for AI and data applications using AWS CDK / CloudFormation / CodePipeline / Terraform.
• Implement security guardrails and compliance controls (IAM, KMS, network segmentation, audit logging) aligned with IT standards - but autonomously within the AI environment.
• Partner with the IT security and cloud teams to ensure adherence to cybersecurity insurance and data governance requirements.
• Manage monitoring, observability, and cost-optimization for AI workloads (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Config, Trusted Advisor).
• Enable rapid development cycles for the AI team by streamlining environment provisioning, model deployment, and access management.
• Serve as the bridge between AI Engineering and IT, building mutual trust through transparency, security-minded automation, and operational excellence.
• Document and evangelize best practices in DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and model lifecycle management.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps / Cloud Engineering experience, with 4+ years on AWS in production environments.
• Proven expertise with AWS services: VPC, IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, CloudFront, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation/CDK, KMS, Cognito, Secrets Manager.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins).
• Strong understanding of networking, identity federation (Azure AD / Okta), and data security.
• Familiarity with AI/ML workflows (SageMaker, Bedrock, Databricks, or similar).
• Hands-on experience implementing security guardrails and compliance controls in AWS.
• Proficiency with Terraform or CDK for Infrastructure as Code.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills - able to explain technical decisions to IT, security, and data teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience supporting AI or data platform teams.
• Exposure to multi-agent systems, Bedrock AgentCore, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
• Background in hybrid enterprise environments (AWS + Azure).
• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Specialty).

Success Indicators

• AI development team can deploy and operate independently within compliant AWS guardrails.
• IT leadership gains confidence in the AI team's DevOps maturity and control mechanisms.
• Infrastructure and pipelines are fully automated, observable, and secure - without bottlenecks.

Summary

This is a hands-on DevOps leadership role at the intersection of AI innovation and enterprise trust. You will empower cutting-edge AI development while ensuring the environment remains compliant, secure, and sustainable - helping shape the company's next generation of intelligent construction technology.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stands; walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.

Suffolk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran, gender identity, age or any other status protected by law. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Suffolk will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination toward, or harassment of, applicants or employees by anyone at Suffolk, or anyone working on behalf of Suffolk.