AWS DevOps Engineer

Experience - 10+ Years.

Designation name : Cloud Engineer III.

Location - Chennai.

Shift Timings - 1.30 PM to 10.30 PM - IST - UK based Shift timings.

Looking for Immediate Joiners only.

Job Purpose :

AWS Engineer with strong technical leadership, hands-on AWS cloud architecture expertise, and a DevOps mindset.

The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure automation, networking, and security, as well as a proven track record of customer satisfaction and cloud deployment success.

This role requires excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Essential Functions :

- 40% - Code and develop continuous automation/delivery processes and tools.

- 25% - Design and build a hybrid cloud product to support a Managed Services model.

- 20% - Solution design and architecture in support of customer assessments and sales engagements.

- 15% - Train and educate staff; pursue self-training, professional growth, and continued education.

Certifications :

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.

- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.

- HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

Experience :

- 8+ years of overall software engineering experience.

- 5 years focused on AWS (cloud application development and deployment).

Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Cloud & DevOps :

- 5+ years developing and deploying cloud applications with seamless integration, scalability, and performance tuning.

- Strong DevOps mindset with a customer-first approach.

- Proficiency with Git (Bitbucket), code reviews, branching, tagging, pipelines, and CI/CD (Jenkins).

AWS Architecture & Automation :

- Active participation in AWS architecture planning (data perimeter, SCPs, legacy account migration, tagging/IAM strategies).

- Automated creation of AWS accounts with base infrastructure (IAM policies, S3 settings, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Config, tagging, EC2 DNS records, backups, metrics onboarding) while ensuring policy compliance.

AWS Services :

- Networking & Content Delivery : VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).

- Compute : EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling, Lambda.

- Security & Compliance : IAM, GuardDuty, Inspector, Certificate Manager, Firewall Manager, Key Management Service.

- Databases : Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift (SQL & NoSQL).

- Storage : S3, EBS.

- Analytics : Glue, Athena, Kinesis.

- Application Integration : Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, SQS.

- Cloud Financial Management : Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost & Usage Reports.

- Containers : EKS, ECS, Fargate.

- Management & Governance : Organizations, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Service Catalog, CLI, Config, Systems Manager.

Infrastructure as Code & Tooling :

- Advanced Terraform and Terragrunt for scalable infrastructure automation.

- Logging and monitoring with Splunk and New Relic.

- Security/risk mitigation tools such as Prisma and Wiz.

- Cloud networking tools such as Aviatrix.

Development & Programming :

- Expert-level Python (cloud automation, infrastructure as code, AI/ML pipelines, API development, data processing).

- Experience with Boto3 (AWS SDK for Python), PowerShell, and shell scripting.

- AI/ML experience : building generative AI solutions for automation, code generation, cost analysis, knowledge retrieval, and designing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with enterprise data sources.

- Implementing guardrails for AI systems to enforce content policies and compliance.

Agile & Documentation :

- ITIL knowledge : incident management, problem resolution, change management.

- Agile practices : PI planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives.

- Proficient with Jira and Confluence for user story creation and project tracking.

- Code documentation in Bitbucket with clear comments and README files for :

- Strong ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure, networking, and service-related issues to improve performance and reliability.