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TechOps Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)

Department: Technology / Engineering

Reports To: Director of Engineering / CTO

Location: [Remote / Hybrid / Onsite]

Employment Type: Full time

Role Overview

We 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 Responsibilities

- AWS/Oracle Infrastructure Leadership

 Architect 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 Operations

 Implement 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 & Compliance

 Implement 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 & Strategy

 Lead and mentor a team of DevOps / TechOps/Tools/ Service Now / Okta 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 Qualifications

 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

 10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure roles.

 3+ 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 Competencies

 Strong architectural thinking

 Hands-on technical leadership

 Crisis and incident management

 Strategic planning and execution

 Excellent cross-functional communication

Success Metrics

 99.9%+ production uptime

 Reduced deployment lead time

 Reduced incident frequency and MTTR

 Improved cost efficiency

 High-performing and scalable TechOps function

If you'd like, I can also provide:

 ✅ A short version for LinkedIn posting

 ✅ A CTO-level executive version

 ✅ A startup (0–1 scale) version

 ✅ A detailed KPI-based performance scorecard

 ✅ A salary band guide by region

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