Position: Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Experience: 1012+ Years
Note: Night Shift (PST)
Notice Period : Immediate Joiner
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
The ideal candidate must possess strong core knowledge of AWS servicesespecially Amazon S3, be client-facing, and capable of guiding technical teams, proposing architectural improvements, and owning production-grade cloud environments.
This role requires both technical depth and excellent communication skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
- Act as a technical point of contact for clients, handling requirement discussions, solution design, and technical clarifications.
- Lead and mentor DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and best-practice recommendations.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Argo CD.
Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (AWS EKS mandatory).
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (modules, remote state, best practices).
- Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives (on-premises to AWS).
- Configure and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
- Handle production incidents, root cause analysis (RCA), and operational improvements.
- Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimization across AWS environments.
Mandatory AWS S3 Expertise (Non-Negotiable)
The candidate must have deep, practical, and architectural-level knowledge of Amazon S3, including:
- S3 architecture, durability, availability, and storage classes.
- Cross-account access using IAM roles and bucket policies.
- Versioning (use cases, delete markers, recovery scenarios).
- Replication (CRR and SRR configurations and limitations).
- S3 Access Points (multi-account and VPC-restricted access).
- Pre-signed URLs for secure object uploads and downloads
- Performance optimization
- Multipart uploads
- Prefix design and request parallelization
- Security best practices
- SSE-S3, SSE-KMS
- Public access blocking
- Object ownership and access control
- Cost optimization
- Lifecycle policies
- Intelligent-Tiering and archival strategies
The candidate should be able to explain real-world use cases, troubleshooting scenarios, and design decisions, not just theoretical concepts.
Required Technical Skills
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ELB, Lambda, EKS)
- Terraform (mandatory) real-world infrastructure automation experience
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker
- CI/CD and GitOps best practices
- Linux system administration and scripting (Bash / Python)
- Strong understanding of cloud security and networking principles
Monitoring & Operations
- Experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Dynatrace
- Proven exposure to production support, incident management, and RCA
- Ability to work in on-call or critical support scenarios when required
Communication & Client-Facing Skills (Mandatory)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to provide clear, concise, and well-structured explanations
- Strong experience in client interactions, technical discussions, and architecture walkthroughs
- Confidence in presenting solutions and explaining trade-offs to stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKAD)
- DevSecOps experience
- Experience managing large-scale, high-availability production systems
Skills: s3,devops engineer,aws,amazon,devops,cloud,infrastructure
