Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, and modern DevOps practices. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud environments that support high-velocity engineering teams. This role demands strong technical ownership, problem-solving ability, and a mindset geared toward automation, reliability, and operational excellence. Key Responsibilities 1.Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) ● Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS. ● Hands-on experience with key AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch etc. ● Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK. ● Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures supporting HA/DR needs. 2.CI/CD, Automation & Developer Productivity ● Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline). ● Automate deployments, environment provisioning, and release workflows. ● Reduce deployment time, increase reliability, and streamline developer workflows. ● Implement automated patching, log rotation, scaling, and cleanup jobs. 3. Containers & Orchestration ● Manage Docker-based environments and containerized applications. ● Deploy and optimize workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS/Fargate. ● Maintain cluster health, autoscaling, resource management, and cost-efficiency. 4. Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response ● Implement robust observability stacks using: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic. ● Build actionable alerting and monitoring dashboards. ● Define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services. ● Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems. 5. FinOps & Cost Optimization ● Continuously monitor cloud costs and optimize usage across services. ● Implement rightsizing, autoscaling, lifecycle policies, caching strategies, and reservation plans. ● Use AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, CloudHealth for visibility. ● Work with engineering teams to design cost-efficient cloud architectures. 6. Security, Governance & Compliance ● Implement AWS security best practices for IAM, VPC, security groups, NACLs, and encryption. ● Manage secret management using KMS, SSM Parameter Store, or Vault. ● Ensure compliance with frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR (where applicable). ● Build secure CI/CD pipelines and enforce least-privilege access. 7. Collaboration, Culture & Leadership ● Work closely with development, QA, and product teams to ensure smooth release cycles. ● Mentor junior DevOps engineers and guide teams on AWS usage and DevOps best practices. ● Create technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams. ● Promote DevOps culture, GitOps practices, and automation-first mindset. What We’re Looking For Must-Have ● 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering. ● Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture and services. ● Proficiency in Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK. ● Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), or AWS ECS. ● Strong grasp of Linux administration, networking, DNS, routing, load balancing. ● Expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and automation tools. ● Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar. ● Experience with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog). Nice to Have ● AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator). ● Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux). ● Knowledge of distributed systems, caching, queues (Kafka, Redis, SQS). ● Hands-on with server less computing and event-driven architectures. ● Experience with cost governance tools and FinOps practices. Here are answers to some questions you may have Where is your office? Chennai (Perungudi) Work Model Work from Office – because great stories are built in person Do you have an online presence? (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media) For better insights: