This role involves leading the TechOps team in designing scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, focusing on implementing DevOps practices, reliability engineering, and ensuring operational excellence across all systems. Key duties include architecting secure, highly available AWS environments, optimizing resource utilization, and leading incident response and disaster recovery planning.
Sr TechOps Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)
Department: Technology / Engineering
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced TechOps SME/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
Architect and manage secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations.
Implement VPC architecture, IAM policies, networking, and security best practices.
Oversee EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and related AWS services.
Optimize AWS cost management and resource utilization.
Reliability & Production Operations
Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.
Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Manage monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems.
Ensure 24/7 uptime and operational resilience.
Security & Compliance
Implement IAM best practices and least-privilege access controls.
Manage secrets and key management (AWS KMS, Secrets Manager).
Conduct vulnerability management and patching.
Support compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR as applicable).
Lead disaster recovery planning and backup strategies.
Leadership & Strategy
Lead and mentor a team of DevOps/TechOps engineers.
Establish operational KPIs and performance benchmarks.
Manage on-call rotations and escalation processes.
Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams.
Contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy and cloud roadmap.
<>Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure roles.
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