About the role
Key Responsibilities• Own and operate AWS production infrastructure end to end, ensuring availability, performance and security• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, lead root cause analysis, and take part in the on-call rotation• Build and mature CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable deployments with clear rollback paths• Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code and scripting• Build monitoring, logging, alerting and incident-response tooling to improve reliability and uptime• Review and tighten access-control policies; support secrets management and dependency scanning• Identify and eliminate cloud waste as part of ongoing cost optimization• Partner with engineering and data teams on deployments and incident response
Essential Technical Skills• AWS (5+ years, hands-on): EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, ALB/ELB, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy• Networking: VPC design and routing, public/private subnets, security groups and NACLs, cross-network connectivity, DNS and load balancing• CI/CD: Proven experience building and maintaining pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent), including secrets and environment management• Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with safe, repeatable infrastructure changes (CloudFormation preferred)• Monitoring and operations: CloudWatch or equivalent for dashboards, logging, alerting and uptime monitoring; production on-call ownership• Troubleshooting: A structured, demonstrable approach to debugging infrastructure, network and application issues• Edge and DNS: Working knowledge of CDN, DNS and WAF management• Databases: PostgreSQL administration (MySQL familiarity is a plus)• Automation: Python and/or Bash scripting for operational tooling• Application awareness: Understanding of how web applications run in production• Mindset: Ownership, clear communication and a cost-conscious approach
Work Arrangement and Shift Requirements• Full-time, reporting to Engineering leadership• US shift: 10 PM to 6 AM IST• Comfortable working in a tightly coupled, follow-the-sun pairing with an offshore counterpart