About This Role

Sr Infrastructure Engineer (AWS Cloud DevOps)

Location: India (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time preferred; contract considered
Working Hours: Shifted IST schedule with about 4 hours of overlap with US Central mornings

Experience: 6+ years in infrastructure or DevOps engineering, with 4+ years on AWS

About the Role

We are looking for a Sr Infrastructure Engineer to run the cloud infrastructure behind a data-driven web platform. The application has a React front end, a headless CMS, and a cloud back end that also serves a public API, and it must stay reliable through releases and regular data updates. You will start by learning the workplace, then harden it and prepare it for larger data volumes.

Key Responsibilities

- Audit the current AWS and Vercel environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD configuration, and access model

- Set up access, tooling, and alerting for day-to-day operations

- Write runbooks and deployment playbooks

- Run production infrastructure on Vercel and AWS

- Advise on where each workload should run, based on evidence

- Build and maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines for the web application, CMS, and API

- Manage environments and ship changes with tested rollback

- Support release readiness

- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting

- Respond to incidents against severity targets, join the escalation path for critical issues, and contribute to root cause analysis

- Report on service performance and reliability

- Apply least-privilege IAM and secrets management

- Plan capacity, cost, and recovery as data volumes grow

- Work with the Solution Architect on infrastructure needs for any approved AI features

Mandatory Skills

Cloud

- Hands-on AWS experience (e.g., IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, OpenSearch, CloudWatch)

- Active AWS certification,



verified at submission (Credly badge link or validation number), with AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional strongly preferred

- Hosting production web applications on AWS, with Vercel experience or the ability to learn it quickly

- Networking, DNS, CDN, TLS, and WAF configuration

DevOps

- Infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation)

- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent), including preview environments and rollback

- Docker and containerized workloads

- Scripting in Bash, Python, or Node.js

Reliability & Security

- Monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch)

- Incident, problem, and change management in an ITSM tool such as ServiceNow

- Managed services or 24x7 support experience

- Cloud security practices, including secrets management, access control, and vulnerability remediation

- Backup, restore, and disaster recovery planning

Collaboration

- Clear written communication with US-based teams

- Good documentation habits, including runbooks and root cause write-ups

- Consultative approach: understands the goal behind a request, lays out options and tradeoffs, and recommends best practice

Optional / Nice-to-Have Skills

- Node.js and Next.js application hosting

- Headless CMS hosting, especially Payload CMS

- Database administration and performance tuning (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis)

- API operations and monitoring

- Data pipeline infrastructure (AWS Glue, Step Functions, or similar)

- Infrastructure support for LLM or AI workloads

- AI-assisted code analysis tools, with an engineer approving every change

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

- 6+ years of professional infrastructure or DevOps experience, with 4+ years on AWS

- A record of operating production web platforms with defined service levels

📌 Sr Infrastructure Engineer (AWS Cloud DevOps) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Lister Digital
📍 Bengaluru