Why Join Iris
Are you ready to do the best work of your career at one ofIndia's Top 25 Best Workplaces in IT industry Do you want to grow in an award-winning culture thattruly values your talent and ambitions
Join Iris Software - one of thefastest-growing IT services companies- whereyou own and shape your success story.

About Us
At Iris Software, our vision is to be our client's most trusted technology partner, and the first choice for the industry's top professionals to realize their full potential.

With over 4,300 associates across India, U.S.A, and Canada, we help our enterprise clients thrive with technology-enabled transformation across financial services, healthcare, transportation & logistics, and professional services.

Our work covers complex, mission-critical applications with the latest technologies, such as high-value complex Application & Product Engineering, Data & Analytics, Cloud, DevOps, Data & MLOps, Quality Engineering, and Business Automation.

Working with Us
At Iris, every role is more than a job - it's a launchpad for growth.

Our Employee Value Proposition, Build Your Future. Own Your Journey.reflects our belief that people thrive when they have ownership of their career and the right opportunities to shape it.

We foster a culture where your potential is valued, your voice matters, and your work creates real impact. With cutting-edge projects, personalized career development, continuous learning and mentorship, we support you to grow and become your best - both personally and professionally.

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Job Description

Role Summary
We are seeking a highly driven Project Lead / Associate Manager with deep expertise in AWS cloud platforms and modern infrastructure practices. This role combines technical leadership, client-facing ownership, and team enablement across multiple initiatives. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, proactively unblocks teams, and serves as a trusted technical advisor for cloud-native and AI/ML-enabled solutions.

Key Responsibilities
. Lead and oversee multiple AWS-based delivery initiatives in parallel
. Act as the primary technical point of contact for client stakeholders
. Architect and guide cloud solutions leveraging AWS best practices
. Mentor and enable offshore teams, ensuring progress during distributed working hours
. Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks unblock teams effectively
. Drive infrastructure automation and platform maturity
. Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to support ML infrastructure, pipelines, and deployments
. Ensure security, reliability, scalability, and cost-awareness across cloud workloads
Required Skills & Experience
. 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering AWS projects, with overall 10+ years of experience
. Deep understanding of core AWS services (IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Sagemaker etc.)
. Strong expertise in container technologies (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)
. Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK preferred Terraform acceptable)
. Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD workflow automation
. Understanding of the AI/ML ecosystem, including model deployment and ML infrastructure patterns
. Experience owning client communication, technical discussions, and delivery updates
. Ability to support and unblock teams during offshore working hours
. Self-driven, proactive, and accountable with a strong ownership mindset
Nice to Have
. Experience with MLOps platforms and ML pipelines
. Exposure to cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
. Prior people-management or delivery-lead experience

Mandatory Competencies

Data & AI - MLOPS - CI/CD (for ML pipelines)

DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Data & AI - MLOPS - Model Registry & Experiment Tracking

Data & AI - MLOPS - Data Pipeline & Feature Management

Data & AI - MLOPS - Python

Data & AI - MLOPS - Machine Learning (ML)

Data & AI - MLOPS - Monitoring & Observation

Perks and Benefits for Irisians
Iris provides world-class benefits for a personalized employee experience. These benefits are designed to support financial, health and well-being needs of Irisians for a holistic professional and personal growth. Click to view the benefits.

ML OPS - Senior Engineer