Sr. DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support a highly data-driven AWS platform. The role focuses on building scalable, resilient infrastructure and enabling ingestion, consumption, and event-driven systems across an ECS-based microservices architecture.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS experience with ECS, Lambda, S3, IAM, OpenSearch
• Deep expertise in Terraform
• Experience with CircleCI and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash
• Experience with observability tools such as Splunk and New Relic
• Strong communication and stakeholder interaction skills
• Ability to participate in architecture and design discussions
• Ability to own end-to-end delivery
• Strong execution and implementation skills
• Focus on automation, pipelines, and support
• Ability to follow defined architecture and standards
• Automation-first mindset
• Zero-downtime focus
• Strong debugging skills
• Ownership and accountability

Responsibilities

• Design and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform modular approach
• Maintain environments across Dev, QA, UAT, Perf, and Prod
• Perform Terraform state management, drift detection, and safe deployments
• Work extensively with AWS services including ECS, Lambda, S3, IAM, ALB, OpenSearch
• Build and optimize ingestion, consumption, and event-driven pipelines
• Support high throughput, low latency distributed systems
• Build and manage pipelines using CircleCI, GitHub, and AWS CodeBuild
• Enable feature-based deployments and automated release workflows
• Ensure zero downtime deployments and strict plan-before-apply governance
• Implement monitoring using New Relic, Splunk, and OpenSearch
• Build dashboards and log pipelines
• Troubleshoot production issues and ensure high availability
• Develop and support Lambda-based architectures
• Work with event-driven systems using SQS, SNS, and streaming pipelines
• Implement IAM roles and policies following least privilege principles
• Manage secrets using AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store
• Work with backend, data, and QA teams
• Drive platform standardization and automation
• Take ownership of reliability, scalability, and performance

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