Lead DevOps Engineer

Amazon.com, Inc.

Seattle, WA, United States

about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

5 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.careerjet.com

Tech stack

Kubernetes Security Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Cloud Computing Security Cloud Engineering Continuous Integration DevOps Github Identity and Access Management Key Management Prometheus Data Logging

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System Availability Grafana Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Gitlab Cloudformation Amazon Relational Database Service 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.