Lead DevOps Engineer

About the Role:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer with extensive

hands on experience in architecting, implementing, and managing AWS-based

infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of building secure,

scalable, and high-availability cloud environments, and will be comfortable working across

networking, compute, storage, monitoring, security, and automation with a proven

experience in leading a DevOps team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers to design, implement, and manage
• AWS infrastructure to meet high-availability and performance requirements.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Ensure cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization across AWS services.
  
  
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application and infrastructure performance.
  
  
• Work closely with development, QA, and Operations teams to enable efficient CI/CD
• pipelines, cloud-native application deployments, and system reliability.
• Implement best practices for backup, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
• Maintain staging and production environments with security controls (e.G., Sophos) applied as required.

Required Skills & Experience:

Core AWS Infrastructure & Networking

- VPC, VPC Endpoints, VPC Links, Site-to-Site VPN

- Route 53 (DNS management, routing policies)

- Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront (CDN)

Compute & Container Services

- EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, ECR, Lambda

- Amplify (deployment and hosting)

Storage & Databases

- S3, RDS, DynamoDB, QLDB, Backup services

API & Event Services

- API Gateway (REST and HTTP), AppSync

- EventBridge, SQS, SNS, SES

Security, Compliance & IAM

- ACM, Cognito, Verified Permissions, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store

- WAF, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, Macie, Inspector

Monitoring & Logging

- CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Sentry

AI/ML & Data Services

- Amazon Textract

Other Tools & Requirements:

- Experience with SSM for system management.

- Familiarity with Sophos for staging/production environments.

- Strong knowledge of AWS Billing and cost optimization strategies.

- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or

CDK).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).

- Experience in CI/CD tools (e.G., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline).

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure roles, with at least 5 years focused on AWS.

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent experience