About the role
- Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
- Define and implement DevOps and CI/CD strategies across multiple applications and environments.
- Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, or similar tools.
- Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Design and manage AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, etc.
- Lead containerization and orchestration initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
- Implement automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployments, and operational processes.
- Establish best practices for AWS security, IAM, networking, monitoring, logging, and cost optimization.
- Design solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and performance.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide technical guidance to engineering and operations teams.
- Drive DevSecOps practices, including security scanning, vulnerability management, secrets management, and compliance automation.
- Mentor and guide DevOps engineers and conduct technical reviews.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to improve delivery processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability, deployment frequency, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Participate in technical discussions, architecture reviews, and production support activities.
- 9+ years of experience in DevOps/Cloud Engineering with strong AWS expertise.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud architecture and services.
- Excellent experience in CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation.
- Strong expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes/AWS EKS.
- Strong knowledge of AWS networking – VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs, load balancers, and Route 53.
- Strong understanding of IAM, security, encryption, and secrets management.
- Experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting.
- Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Shell, or Bash.
- Experience with monitoring and logging using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of Git and source-control management.
- Proven experience in technical leadership and mentoring.