AWS DevOps Lead

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced AWS DevOps Lead to guide initiatives spanning build, release, deployment, and operational activities across multiple environments. This leadership role requires designing and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to efficiently manage AWS resources, and embedding security and compliance within all operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead AWS DevOps efforts to streamline software build, release, deployment, and operational workflows in diverse environments.
• Architect, develop, and sustain automated CI/CD pipelines ensuring reliability and repeatability of deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code methods to provision and manage cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Set up operational standards including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-incident analyses.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to boost deployment rates, minimize lead times, and enhance quality of releases.
• Integrate security and compliance controls into pipelines and cloud operations, embodying a DevSecOps approach.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and automate remediation tasks.
• Provide mentorship to team members, conduct thorough code and configuration reviews, and promote standardized templates and best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Between 5 to 9 years of relevant industry experience with a hands-on focus on AWS DevOps and cloud operational support.
• Relevant academic background such as Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering, Computer Applications, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience in building and managing production-grade CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of AWS services, cloud networking fundamentals, identity and access management, and deployment methodologies.
• Proven capability supporting production environments including monitoring, incident management, and improving system reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with sophisticated CI/CD techniques like blue-green and canary deployments along with automated rollback mechanisms.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code and configuration management to ensure environment standardization.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies for AWS cloud-native deployments.
• Ability to define and track DevOps key performance indicators such as deployment frequency, mean time to recovery (MTTR), and change failure rate.
• Experience partnering with security teams to integrate vulnerability scans, compliance checks, and secret management into CI/CD workflows.
• Track record of leading and mentoring DevOps teams while facilitating alignment across teams on release and operational procedures.

Eligibility

Open to individuals with any graduate-level educational qualification.