Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

12 years

18 - 24 Lacs

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Job Description

Position:

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Experience

: 10–12+ Years

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Role OverviewWe are seeking a highly experienced Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.The ideal candidate must possess strong core knowledge of AWS services—especially Amazon S3, be client-facing, and capable of guiding technical teams, proposing architectural improvements, and owning production-grade cloud environments.This role requires both technical depth and excellent communication skills.

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Key Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
  • Act as a technical point of contact for clients, handling requirement discussions, solution design, and technical clarifications.
  • Lead and mentor DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and best-practice recommendations.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Argo CD.
Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (AWS EKS mandatory).
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (modules, remote state, best practices).
  • Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives (on-premises to AWS).
  • Configure and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
  • Handle production incidents, root cause analysis (RCA), and operational improvements.
  • Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimization across AWS environments.

Mandatory AWS S3 Expertise (Non-Negotiable)

The candidate must have deep, practical, and architectural-level knowledge of Amazon S3, including:
  • S3 architecture, durability, availability, and storage classes.
  • Cross-account access using IAM roles and bucket policies.
  • Versioning (use cases, delete markers, recovery scenarios).
  • Replication (CRR and SRR configurations and limitations).
  • S3 Access Points (multi-account and VPC-restricted access).
  • Pre-signed URLs for secure object uploads and downloads
  • Performance optimization
  • Multipart uploads
  • Prefix design and request parallelization
  • Security best practices
  • SSE-S3, SSE-KMS
  • Public access blocking
  • Object ownership and access control
  • Cost optimization
  • Lifecycle policies
  • Intelligent-Tiering and archival strategies
The candidate should be able to explain real-world use cases, troubleshooting scenarios, and design decisions, not just theoretical concepts.

🔹 Required Technical Skills

  • Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ELB, Lambda, EKS)
  • Terraform (mandatory) – real-world infrastructure automation experience
  • Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker
  • CI/CD and GitOps best practices
  • Linux system administration and scripting (Bash / Python)
  • Strong understanding of cloud security and networking principles

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Monitoring & Operations
  • Experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Dynatrace
  • Proven exposure to production support, incident management, and RCA
  • Ability to work in on-call or critical support scenarios when required

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Communication & Client-Facing Skills (Mandatory)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to provide clear, concise, and well-structured explanations
  • Strong experience in client interactions, technical discussions, and architecture walkthroughs
  • Confidence in presenting solutions and explaining trade-offs to stakeholders

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Nice to Have
  • Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKAD)
  • DevSecOps experience
  • Experience managing large-scale, high-availability production systems
Skills: python,amazon,devops,aws,terraform,docker

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