AWS DevOps Engineer

About The Role We are seeking an experienced and technically strong AWS DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience to join our engineering team. You will play a critical role in architecting and managing scalable AWS cloud platforms, driving enterprise-scale CI/CD automation, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and optimizing Kubernetes orchestration.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with development, QA, security, and infrastructure teams in a fast-paced Agile environment to ensure operational stability, optimize cloud efficiency, and strengthen security and observability across multiple environments.

What You’ll Do

• Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture: Design, build, and manage highly scalable, secure, and resilient AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC). Execute modernization initiatives, multi-account AWS IAM setups, and disaster recovery strategies.
• DevOps & CI/CD Engineering: Design and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or AWS CodePipeline. Build automated deployment workflows supporting microservices with blue-green, canary, and rolling strategies.
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Lead IaC implementations using Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK. Develop reusable modules, automate environment provisioning, configuration management, and enforce GitOps best practices.
• Containerization & Kubernetes: Manage and optimize containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS). Deploy and maintain clusters with Helm charts, auto-scaling, ingress controllers, and troubleshoot cluster networking and performance.
• Monitoring, Observability & Reliability: Implement enterprise observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, or ELK stack. Define alerting standards and perform root cause analysis (RCA) for critical incidents.
• Production Operations & On-Call Support: Participate in on-call support rotations to respond to high-severity production incidents, perform thorough root cause analysis (RCA), and implement long-term remediation to minimize Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).
• Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps: Proactively monitor and optimize AWS cloud expenditure by applying resource right-sizing, cost-allocation tagging, spot/reserved instance strategies, and lifecycle management policies.
• Security & Compliance: Implement DevSecOps practices, managing IAM policies, secrets management, encryption, and integrating security scanners (Trivy, SonarQube, Checkov) into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Mentor junior DevOps engineers, promote an automation culture, participate in architecture reviews, capacity planning, and drive continuous delivery improvements.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years of dedicated hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• AWS Expertise: Deep experience with AWS core services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Infrastructure as Code: Strong hands-on expertise in Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, and automated infrastructure lifecycle management.
• CI/CD & Automation: Proven track record of building complex CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or AWS DevOps tools.
• Containers & Kubernetes: Solid proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm charts, auto-scaling, and container networking.
• Operations & Reliability: Hands-on experience in production on-call support, incident troubleshooting, RCA execution, and MTTR reduction.
• Scripting & Systems: Strong Linux system administration and scripting skills in Bash or Python (Golang is a plus).
• Observability: Experience setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK/OpenSearch.
• Cost Optimization: Practical knowledge of FinOps practices, resource right-sizing, cost tagging, and AWS billing optimization tools.

Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)

• Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• GitOps & Service Mesh: Hands-on experience with ArgoCD, FluxCD, or service mesh technologies (Istio/Linkerd).
• Data & Messaging: Familiarity with caching and messaging systems (Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ) and databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Practices: Exposure to SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets) and security tools (Artifactory, Checkov). …