Sr TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)

Department: Technology / Engineering

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer with deep expertise in Cloud to lead our cloud infrastructure DevOps practices reliability engineering and operational excellence initiatives. This role is both strategic and hands-on responsible for designing scalable architectures improving automation ensuring system reliability and leading the TechOps team.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architect and manage secure scalable and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
   
2. Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations.
   
3. Implement VPC architecture IAM policies networking and security best practices.
   
4. Oversee EC2 ECS/EKS Lambda RDS S3 CloudFront and related AWS services.
   
5. Optimize AWS cost management and resource utilization.
   

Site Reliability & Production Operations

1. Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.
   
2. Define SLIs SLOs and error budgets.
   
3. Manage monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch Datadog Prometheus Grafana).
   
4. Lead incident response root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems.
   
5. Ensure 24/7 uptime and operational resilience.
   

Security & Compliance

1. Implement IAM best practices and least-privilege access controls.
   
2. Manage secrets and key management (AWS KMS Secrets Manager).
   
3. Conduct vulnerability management and patching.
   
4. Support compliance initiatives (SOC 2 ISO 27001 GDPR as applicable).
   
5. Lead disaster recovery planning and backup strategies.
   

Leadership & Strategy

1. Lead and mentor a team of DevOps/TechOps/ engineers.
   
2. Establish operational KPIs and performance benchmarks.
   
3. Manage on-call rotations and escalation processes.
   
4. Collaborate with Engineering Product Security and Data teams.
   
5. Contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy and cloud roadmap.
   

1. Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience.
   
2. 10 years in DevOps Cloud Engineering or Infrastructure roles.
   
3. 5 years leading SRE technical teams.
   
4. Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2 EKS RDS S3 IAM VPC Lambda).
   
5. Deep knowledge of networking Linux systems and distributed systems.
   
6. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
   
7. Strong scripting skills (Python Bash or similar).
   
8. Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
   

Key Competencies

1. Strong architectural thinking
   
2. Hands-on technical leadership
   
3. Crisis and incident management
   
4. Strategic planning and execution
   
5. Excellent cross-functional communication