AWS DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on and experienced AWS DevOps Engineer with 3-5 years of cloud infrastructure and automation expertise to join our team and take ownership of DevOps for our EasyWebinar product - a live webinar platform serving a global user base.

You-ll be responsible for the management security scalability cost optimization and automation of our AWS infrastructure. This includes containerized applications on ECS serverless functions on Lambda Terraform-based automation Docker and full CI/CD lifecycle management. The ideal candidate has strong knowledge of Linux AWS services and modern DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Infrastructure Management & Cost Optimization

• Design provision and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using ECS (Fargate /EC2) Lambda RDS EC2 S3 CloudFront ELB Route 53 and WAF
• Build secure and scalable VPC architectures including NAT gateways subnets security groups NACLs and route tables
• Monitor usage and implement cost optimization strategies using AWS Trusted Advisor Cost Explorer and automation for unused resources
• Ensure high availability disaster recovery backup scheduling and performance tuning for all infrastructure components

Serverless & Lambda Management

• Deploy and maintain AWS Lambda functions optimize performance (cold starts timeouts memory) and troubleshoot failures
• Integrate Lambda with event-driven services such as S3 SQS SNS and CloudWatch Events
• Apply secure IAM roles environment isolation and versioning to Lambda-based workloads

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Create and manage Terraform modules for provisioning and configuring all AWS services
• Maintain Git-based version control of infrastructure and enable automated promotion across environments (devstaging prod)

CI/CD & Automation

• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions GitLab CI or Azure Pipelines
• Automate build test and deployment for ECS microservices Lambda functions and S3-based static content
• Ensure smooth and rollback-safe deployments with appropriate approvals and validations

Docker & Containerization

• Build and optimize Docker images for containerized applications
• Manage and troubleshoot container deployments in ECS (both EC2 and Fargate)
• Apply container lifecycle best practices including multi-stage builds and secure image registries

Security & Compliance

• Apply least-privilege access policies using IAM roles policies and MFA
• Enforce encryption secure key storage and API protection with WAF and HTTPS via CloudFront
• Regularly patch systems and monitor for vulnerabilities or misconfigurations

Monitoring Logging & Incident Management

• Use Amazon CloudWatch as the primary tool for metrics logs alarms and dashboards
• Continuously improve logging standards and observability including structured logging across Lambda ECS and EC2
• Set up custom metrics and log-based alerts to detect errors bottlenecks and anomalies
• Build and maintain operational dashboards to monitor system health
• Participate in incident response perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions

Troubleshooting & Production Support

• Proactively monitor and investigate production issues across AWS Docker Lambda ECS RDS and Linux-based systems
• Quickly identify the root cause of live issues and provide short-term mitigation and long-term fixes
• Collaborate with developers to debug application-layer and infrastructure-level problems
• Own and continuously improve incident response resolution time and reliability processes

Linux System Administration

• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based EC2 instances (Amazon Linux Ubuntu)
• Handle OS-level performance tuning networking and patch management
• Create system-level scripts and automation for routine DevOps tasks

Required Skills & Experience

• 3-5 years of experience in a DevOps or Cloud Engineering role focused on AWS- Strong expertise in:
• AWS Lambda including deployment optimization and event integration
• Core AWS services: ECS EC2 RDS S3 CloudFront ELB Route 53 WAF
• Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation
• CI/CD pipeline design using GitHub Actions GitLab CI or Azure Pipelines
• Docker: image creation deployment and ECS orchestration
• VPC networking: NAT gateways subnets route tables SGs and NACLs
• Linux administration and shell scripting
• Proven experience in AWS cost analysis and optimization
• Strong skills in production troubleshooting log analysis and root cause identification

Nice to Have

• AWS Certification (e.g. DevOps Engineer - Associate Solutions Architect - Associate)
• Experience with event-driven architectures using SNS SQS or Step Functions
• Exposure to real-time streaming or webinar platforms
• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog ELK Stack or Prometheus