TechOps Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)

Job Description:

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
1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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