About role:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (AWS) to join our team and take ownership of building scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud infrastructure from scratch.

This is a high-impact role where you will define DevOps practices, implement automation, and build robust cloud-native platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and build secure, scalable, and cost-effective AWS infrastructure for startup hedge fund environments.
- Set up the initial cloud platform foundation, including networking, IAM, compute, storage, deployment model, and environment structure.
- Define and implement the DevOps framework, including CI/CD standards, release flow, deployment automation, and platform guardrails.
- Use Terraform to provision and manage AWS resources through Infrastructure as Code.
- Build CI/CD pipelines for both application and infrastructure deployment.
- Set up and manage core AWS services including EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, S3, Route 53, Load Balancers, CloudWatch, and RDS.
- Build a cost dashboard, monitoring dashboard, and basic operational alerting for platform health, failures, and critical events.
- Implement secure handling of secrets,



certificates, and environment configuration, and support backup, DR, and platform reliability.

Required Skills and Experience:

- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and building greenfield environments from scratch.
- Strong production experience with Terraform.
- Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with EKS and container-based deployments.
- Strong working knowledge of EC2, IAM, VPC, networking, load balancers, autoscaling, S3, CloudWatch, Route 53, and RDS.
- Positive understanding of infrastructure security, access control, and cloud architecture best practices.
- Experience building monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Strong Python or shell scripting skills for automation, tooling, and platform engineering tasks.
- Strong Linux administration, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and take end-to-end ownership.

📌 Contract | Senior AWS DevOps / Platform Engineer | GeakMinds (Chennai)
🏢 Geak Minds
📍 Chennai