Lead DevOps Engineer

Amazon.com, Inc.
Seattle, United States of America
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Seattle, United States of America

Tech stack

Kubernetes Security
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing Security
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Github
Identity and Access Management
Key Management
Prometheus
Data Logging
System Availability
Grafana
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Gitlab
Cloudformation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Containerization
Gitlab-ci
Kubernetes
Deployment Automation
Functional Programming
Cloudwatch
Terraform
Docker
Vulnerability Analysis

Job description

  • Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud native infrastructure and CI/CD automation across mission critical systems.
  • This role combines deep expertise in AWS Cloud, GitLab Pipelines, and Kubernetes to drive reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity.
  • Key Responsibilities Cloud Architecture Design and maintain highly available AWS environments using EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
  • CI/CD Automation Build, optimize, and govern GitLab CI/CD pipelines for multi service deployments.
  • Kubernetes Operations Manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters, including scaling, monitoring, and workload orchestration.
  • Infrastructure as Code Implement IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation to ensure consistent, repeatable infrastructure.
  • Security & Compliance Enforce cloud security standards, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.
  • Observability Implement logging, metrics, and tracing using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch.
  • Team Leadership Mentor DevOps engineers, establish best practices, and collaborate with development teams.
  • Release Engineering Oversee deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for high availability systems.
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Requirements

  • AWS Expertise 5-8+ years hands-on experience with core AWS services and cloud architecture.
  • GitLab CI/CD Strong experience building complex pipelines, runners, and automated deployment workflows.
  • Kubernetes Deep knowledge of EKS, Helm, Operators, networking, and cluster lifecycle management.
  • Containerization Proficiency with Docker image design, multi-stage builds, and container security.
  • IaC Strong Terraform module design and environment provisioning.
  • SRE Principles Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets.

Key Skills: AWS, Devops, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, GitHub.

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