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**Job Title:** Lead AWS DevOps Engineer
**Role Summary:**
Lead the design, deployment, and operation of scalable, secure AWS-based infrastructure for a portfolio of SaaS products. Drive automation, CI/CD, and best‑practice DevOps practices while mentoring the team and collaborating with engineering and product stakeholders.
**Expectations:**
- Lead a small DevOps team in a fast‑paced, product‑centric environment.
- Deliver high‑availability, cost‑effective AWS solutions that meet performance and security standards.
- Own the continuous improvement of DevOps tooling, pipelines, and processes.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Architect, build, and evolve AWS infrastructure for SaaS offerings.
- Define and enforce standards for IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, and security.
- Drive adoption of containerization, serverless, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Git, automated testing, deployment).
- Implement monitoring, alerting, logging (CloudWatch, Grafana, log analytics).
- Optimize environments for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Troubleshoot complex deployment and infrastructure issues.
- Mentor and review team members’ designs and code.
- Collaborate with engineering/product teams on feature releases and operational improvements.
**Required Skills:**
- 8+ years of hands‑on DevOps experience with AWS.
- Proficient with AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Beanstalk, CloudFront, Route 53, Glacier, Lambda, EventBridge.
- Expertise in IaC tools: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
- CI/CD experience: Jenkins, Git, pipeline automation.
- Strong Linux administration and scripting (Bash, Python).
- Knowledge of security/compliance frameworks (ITIL, NIST, SOC 2).
- Monitoring/logging: Grafana, CloudWatch, log analysis.
- Messaging/queue systems: SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, SES.
- Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS.
- Serverless architecture experience.
- Problem‑solving, adaptability, and strong communication skills.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- No specific certifications required, but AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect) are a plus.