Role overview

Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Lead – AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Requirements and responsibilities

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Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Define and enforce cloud architecture standards, governance frameworks, security controls, and operational best practices.
  • Design and maintain infrastructure architecture diagrams, network topology diagrams, deployment diagrams, and technical documentation.
  • Design and manage AWS networking solutions, including VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53, Security Groups, Network ACLs, and Load Balancers (ALB/NLB).
  • Implement hybrid cloud and on-premises connectivity solutions.
  • Drive cloud governance, cost optimization, and infrastructure reliability initiatives.
  • Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, ArgoCD, or similar tools.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Design, deploy, manage, and optimize containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
  • Implement Kubernetes best practices, including cluster administration, scaling, upgrades, networking, ingress management, and workload security.
  • Implement AWS security best practices, IAM governance, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance controls.
  • Design and manage monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, New Relic, or similar platforms.
  • Build operational dashboards, define monitoring standards, and establish proactive alerting mechanisms.
  • Lead incident management, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Collaborate with engineering, security, and business teams to deliver cloud-native and platform engineering solutions.
  • Mentor team members and promote DevOps best practices across projects and teams.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

  • 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related roles.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
  • Experience designing and documenting infrastructure architecture, cloud solutions, and network topology diagrams using tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, Draw.io, or equivalent.
  • Deep experience designing and managing AWS networking solutions, including Amazon VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53, Security Groups, Network ACLs, and Application/Network Load Balancers (ALB/NLB).
  • Strong hands-on experience managing production-grade Kubernetes environments, preferably Amazon EKS.
  • Hands-on expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ingress Controllers, and container orchestration technologies.
  • Strong experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, AWS CodePipeline, or similar technologies.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, Splunk, or New Relic.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking fundamentals, governance, and cloud cost optimization.
  • Good understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud services and cloud architecture principles.
  • Strong Linux administration, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and networking skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
  • Experience supporting global customers, including US and/or European clients.

Mandatory

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

Preferred

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • AWS Advanced Networking – Specialty
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