Sr TechOps Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)- REMOTE

Sr TechOps Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)Department: Technology / EngineeringRole OverviewWe are seeking a highly experienced TechOps SME/Lead Engineer with deep expertise in Cloud to lead our cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, reliability engineering, and operational excellence initiatives. This role is both strategic and hands-on — responsible for designing scalable architectures, improving automation, ensuring system reliability, and leading the TechOps team.Key ResponsibilitiesArchitect and manage secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations.Implement VPC architecture, IAM policies, networking, and security best practices.Oversee EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and related AWS services.Optimize AWS cost management and resource utilization.Reliability & Production OperationsImplement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.Manage monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems.Ensure 24/7 uptime and operational resilience.Security & ComplianceImplement IAM best practices and least-privilege access controls.Manage secrets and key management (AWS KMS, Secrets Manager).Conduct vulnerability management and patching.Support compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR as applicable).Lead disaster recovery planning and backup strategies.Leadership & StrategyLead and mentor a team of DevOps/TechOps engineers.Establish operational KPIs and performance benchmarks.Manage on-call rotations and escalation processes.Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams.Contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy and cloud roadmap.<>Required QualificationsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure roles.5+ years leading technical teams.Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda).Deep knowledge of networking, Linux systems, and distributed systems.Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar).Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).Key CompetenciesStrong architectural thinkingHands-on technical leadershipCrisis and incident managementStrategic planning and executionExcellent cross-functional communicationSuccess Metrics99.9%+ production uptimeReduced deployment lead timeReduced incident frequency and MTTRImproved cost efficiencyHigh-performing and scalable TechOps function

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