AWS DevOps Lead
About the role
About the Role
AWS DevOps Lead
AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD and production engineering
What You'll Do
- Design, build and maintain
highly available, scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS
.
- Build automation to reduce manual operational effort and improve engineering productivity.
- Design, develop and manage robust
CI/CD pipelines
for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Drive
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
and automation-first engineering practices.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across
AWS infrastructure, Linux, networking, applications and deployment pipelines
.
- Participate in production support and on-call activities, taking end-to-end ownership of incidents and root-cause analysis.
- Partner closely with software engineering teams to design and enable
cloud-native solutions
.
- Continuously improve platform
reliability, scalability, security, performance and developer experience
.
- Build reusable automation and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Evaluate AI-powered engineering solutions that can improve operational efficiency and developer productivity.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, operational runbooks and engineering best practices.
What We're Looking For
- 8-12 years of hands-on experience
in DevOps, AWS Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE or similar engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
.
- Experience with AWS services and capabilities such as: EC2 EBS S3 VPC and VPC Endpoints Transit Gateway Security Groups and NACLs AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeBuild
- Strong
Linux administration and troubleshooting
skills, including process management, memory, file systems, system performance and shell scripting.
- Solid understanding of
networking fundamentals
, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, load balancing, firewalls and VPN concepts.
- Strong scripting or programming skills in at least one of
Python, Go, Java or Bash
.
- Hands-on experience building and managing
CI/CD pipelines
and a good understanding of modern software delivery practices.
- Experience with
GitHub Actions
for build and deployment automation.
- Strong production troubleshooting, debugging and
root-cause analysis
capabilities.
- Experience building reusable automation or self-service tooling.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.
Good to Have
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
.
- Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as
Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as
AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus or Datadog
.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as
Ansible
.
- Understanding of AWS cloud security and infrastructure security best practices.
- AWS certification(s).
What Will Make You Successful in This Role You are someone who:
- Thinks automation first
and looks for opportunities to engineer manual work out of the system.
- Has a strong
builder mindset
and enjoys solving difficult infrastructure problems.
- Takes ownership of production systems rather than simply operating them.
- Has strong debugging instincts and enjoys getting to the root cause of complex problems.
- Balances
reliability, scalability, security and developer experience
.
- Is curious about emerging engineering technologies, including AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Continuously learns and helps raise the engineering standards of the wider team.
Why Fractal?
AI, cloud and modern engineering
building rather than just maintaining
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