Lead AWS Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure.
• Lead architecture decisions across compute, networking, storage, and security layers.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Drive modernization initiatives (containerization, serverless, event-driven architectures).
• Own uptime, performance, and incident response for AWS-hosted systems.
• Implement observability frameworks (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
• Establish SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs, and runbooks.
• Lead root-cause analysis and continuous improvement after incidents.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.).
• Improve developer experience through tooling, automation, and environment management.
• Partner with Engineers and champion best practices for deployment, versioning, and release engineering.
• Implement AWS security best practices: IAM, KMS, VPC security, Secrets Manager.
• Partner with Security to ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO27001, and data protection standards.
• Conduct regular audits, threat modeling, and vulnerability remediation.
• Proactively monitor and optimize AWS spend across services and environments.
• Establish tagging standards, resource governance, and cost visibility dashboards.
• Recommend architectural changes to reduce waste and improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, API Gateway.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred).
• Hands-on experience with containers, orchestration, and serverless.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems.
• Proven track record of leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.

Preferred

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps).
• Experience in SaaS, multi-tenant architectures, or high-scale systems.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with cost governance and FinOps practices.
• Background in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure leadership.