Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, and modern DevOps practices.
You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud environments that support high-velocity engineering teams.
This role demands strong technical ownership, problem-solving ability, and a mindset geared toward automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) :
- Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS.
- Hands-on experience with key AWS services : EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3,
VPC, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch etc.
- Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK.
- Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures supporting HA/DR needs.
CI/CD, Automation & Developer Productivity
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline).
- Automate deployments, environment provisioning, and release workflows.
- Reduce deployment time, increase reliability, and streamline developer workflows.
- Implement automated patching, log rotation, scaling, and cleanup jobs.
Containers & Orchestration
- Manage Docker-based environments and containerized applications.
- Deploy and optimize workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS/Fargate.
- Maintain cluster health, autoscaling, resource management, and cost-efficiency.
Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response
- Implement robust observability stacks using : CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic.
- Build actionable alerting and monitoring dashboards.
- Define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
FinOps & Cost Optimization
- Continuously monitor cloud costs and optimize usage across services.
- Implement rightsizing, autoscaling, lifecycle policies, caching strategies, and reservation plans.
- Use AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, CloudHealth for visibility.
- Work with engineering teams to design cost-efficient cloud architectures.
Security, Governance & Compliance
- Implement AWS security best practices for IAM, VPC, security groups, NACLs, and encryption.
- Manage secret management using KMS, SSM Parameter Store, or Vault.
- Ensure compliance with frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR (where applicable).
- Build secure CI/CD pipelines and enforce least-privilege access.
Collaboration, Culture & Leadership
- Work closely with development, QA, and product teams to ensure smooth release cycles.
- Mentor junior DevOps engineers and guide teams on AWS usage and DevOps best practices.
- Create technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
- Promote DevOps culture, GitOps practices, and automation-first mindset.
Must-Have
What Were Looking For :
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering.
- Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture and services.
- Proficiency in Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK.
- Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), or AWS ECS.
- Strong grasp of Linux administration, networking, DNS, routing, load balancing.
- Expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and automation tools.
- Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar.
- Experience with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
Nice To Have
- AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator).
- Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux).
- Knowledge of distributed systems, caching, queues (Kafka, Redis, SQS).
- Hands-on with server less computing and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with cost governance tools and FinOps practices.
Here are answers to some questions you may have.
Where is your office :
Chennai (Perungudi).
Work Model
Work from Office because great stories are built in person!.
Do you have an online presence :
https : //amura.
ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media).
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