Location: Noida
Department: Technology / Engineering
Reports To: CTO / VP Engineering
We are seeking an experienced Head of DevOps (AWS) to lead, scale, and mature our cloud infrastructure and DevOps capabilities. The ideal candidate is a strategic technical leader with deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, site reliability, and DevOps culture-building. You will drive operational excellence, platform reliability, deployment automation, and cloud cost optimization across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy
- Define and execute the overall DevOps strategy aligned with business goals.
- Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing DevOps/SRE/CloudOps team.
- Establish DevOps best practices, engineering standards, and governance.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to streamline delivery.
AWS Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure
- Lead the design and optimization of scalable, secure, and highly available AWS architectures.
- Oversee infrastructure design using AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, VPC, RDS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, and IAM.
- Drive cloud modernization initiatives (containerization, serverless, microservices, etc.).
- Ensure infrastructure reliability, resilience, and disaster recovery planning.
Automation & CI/CD
- Build and refine CI/CD pipelines using tools like AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
- Establish automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and rollback strategies.
- Champion infrastructure-as-code (IaC) through CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK.
Observability & SRE Practices
- Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
- Define SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs; drive incident management and root-cause analysis.
- Ensure 24/7 platform reliability through automation and proactive controls.
Security & Compliance
- Enforce cloud security best practices including IAM governance, secrets management, and network security.
- Collaborate with security teams on risk assessments, audits, and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR, etc.).
- Build automated security checks into the development lifecycle.
Cost Optimization & Performance
- Monitor and optimize AWS cost, usage, and resource efficiency.
- Perform capacity planning and performance tuning across environments.
Required Qualifications
- 1015+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SRE roles.
- 5+ years in a leadership or team management role.
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud services, architectures, and best practices.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tooling, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS), and IaC.
- Hands-on scripting experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
- Proven experience designing scalable, reliable, secure cloud platforms.
- Strong understanding of networking, security, monitoring, and automation ecosystems.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional).
- Experience with modern engineering cultures (GitOps, SRE, DevSecOps).
- Experience in high-growth product companies or enterprise-scale infrastructure.
- Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments (optional).
Key Competencies
- Leadership & team development
- Strategic thinking & architectural vision
- Problem-solving & decision-making
- Collaboration & cross-functional communication
- Customer-centric mindset
- Process improvement & innovation
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