Sr TechOps Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)- REMOTE
Job Description
Sr TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)
Department: Technology / Engineering
Role OverviewWe are seeking a highly experiencedTechOps & SRE Lead Engineerwith deep expertise inCloudto lead our cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, reliability engineering, and operational excellence initiatives. This role is both strategic and hands-on responsible for designing scalable architectures, improving automation, ensuring system reliability, and leading the TechOps team.
Key Responsibilities Architect and manage secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on AWS. Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations. Implement VPC architecture, IAM policies, networking, and security best practices. Oversee EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and related AWS services. Optimize AWS cost management and resource utilization. Site Reliability & Production Operations Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices. Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Manage monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana). Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems. Ensure 24/7 uptime and operational resilience. Security & Compliance Implement IAM best practices and least-privilege access controls. Manage secrets and key management (AWS KMS, Secrets Manager). Conduct vulnerability management and patching. Support compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR as applicable). Lead disaster recovery planning and backup strategies. Leadership & Strategy Lead and mentor a team of DevOps/TechOps/ engineers. Establish operational KPIs and performance benchmarks. Manage on-call rotations and escalation processes. Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams. Contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy and cloud roadmap. Required Qualifications Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure roles. 5+ years leading SRE technical teams. Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda). Deep knowledge of networking, Linux systems, and distributed systems. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation). Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar). Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes (EKS preferred). Key CompetenciesStrong architectural thinkingHands-on technical leadershipCrisis and incident managementStrategic planning and executionExcellent cross-functional communication
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