AppOps Lead (AWS EKS / SRE / Cloud Operations)

Experience: 10+ Years

Key Responsibilities

- Lead AppOps strategy for cloud-native applications running on AWS EKS.

- Define and implement AppOps governance, operational standards, and best practices.

- Establish and drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.

- Ensure production readiness, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence of microservices platforms.

- Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Business leadership teams.

- Drive operational automation, observability, incident management, and cost optimization initiatives.

Required Skills

- 10+ years in Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or System Architecture, including 5+ years leading cloud operations.

- Strong expertise in AWS Cloud, including IAM, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, and managed services.

- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AWS EKS) in large-scale production environments.

- Experience with multi-tenant cluster management, workload optimization,



and containerized microservices.

- Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, service discovery, and resiliency patterns.

- Expertise in CI/CD, GitOps, Blue-Green and Canary deployments.

- Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, and observability platforms.

- Proven experience in defining operational standards, governance frameworks, and greenfield AppOps setups.

- Strong focus on reliability engineering, production support excellence, and cloud cost optimization.

Preferred

- Experience leading enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.

- Solid stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

- AWS and Kubernetes certifications are a plus.

Keywords: AWS EKS, Kubernetes, SRE, AppOps, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Microservices, GitOps, CI/CD, Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Production Support, Reliability Engineering.

📌 AppOps Lead (AWS EKS / SRE / Cloud Operations) (Chennai)
🏢 Synechron
📍 Chennai