DevOps Lead Engineer - AWS

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, platform engineering, systems administration, or related technical roles, with at least 4 years focused on AWS cloud platforms and DevOps practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Required certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (or higher), CKA or CKAD
• Deep technical expertise in CI/CD platforms including AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and related automation tools.
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies including Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Pulumi, Bicep, and enterprise-scale infrastructure automation.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines supporting high-frequency deployments, automation, and release management.
• Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization technologies, GitOps methodologies, container security, and cloud-native application deployment patterns.
• Experience with configuration management platforms including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, AWS Systems Manager, and automation frameworks.
• Strong scripting and automation expertise using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, or related programming languages.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, New Relic, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of Linux administration, networking fundamentals, cloud architecture principles, security best practices, and DevOps operating models.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices including SAST, DAST, container security, compliance automation, secrets management, and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills with the ability to influence technical and business teams while driving continuous improvement and DevOps maturity across the organization.