Senior Lead Devops Engineer

Overview

Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud
infrastructure, automation, and modern DevOps practices.

You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost-
efficient cloud environments that support high-velocity engineering teams.

This role demands strong technical ownership, problem-solving ability, and a mindset geared
toward automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities
1.Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
● Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS.
● Hands-on experience with key AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3,
VPC, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch etc.
● Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK.
● Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures supporting HA/DR needs.
2.CI/CD, Automation & Developer Productivity
● Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS
CodePipeline).
● Automate deployments, environment provisioning, and release workflows.
● Reduce deployment time, increase reliability, and streamline developer workflows.
● Implement automated patching, log rotation, scaling, and cleanup jobs.
3. Containers & Orchestration
● Manage Docker-based environments and containerized applications.
● Deploy and optimize workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS/Fargate.
● Maintain cluster health, autoscaling, resource management, and cost-efficiency.
4. Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response
● Implement robust observability stacks using: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK,
Datadog, New Relic.
● Build actionable alerting and monitoring dashboards.
● Define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services.
● Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
5. FinOps & Cost Optimization
● Continuously monitor cloud costs and optimize usage across services.
● Implement rightsizing, autoscaling, lifecycle policies, caching strategies, and reservation
plans.
● Use AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, CloudHealth for visibility.
● Work with engineering teams to design cost-efficient cloud architectures.
6. Security, Governance & Compliance
● Implement AWS security best practices for IAM, VPC, security groups, NACLs, and
encryption.
● Manage secret management using KMS, SSM Parameter Store, or Vault.
● Ensure compliance with frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR (where applicable).
● Build secure CI/CD pipelines and enforce least-privilege access.
7. Collaboration, Culture & Leadership
● Work closely with development, QA, and product teams to ensure smooth release cycles.
● Mentor junior DevOps engineers and guide teams on AWS usage and DevOps best
practices.
● Create technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
● Promote DevOps culture, GitOps practices, and automation-first mindset.

What We’re Looking For
Must-Have
● 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering.
● Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture and services.
● Proficiency in Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK.
● Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), or AWS ECS.
● Strong grasp of Linux administration, networking, DNS, routing, load balancing.
● Expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and automation tools.
● Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar.
● Experience with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog).

Nice to Have
● AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator).
● Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux).
● Knowledge of distributed systems, caching, queues (Kafka, Redis, SQS).
● Hands-on with serverless computing and event-driven architectures.
● Experience with cost governance tools and FinOps practices.

Here are answers to some questions you may have
Where is your office?
Chennai (Perungudi)
Work Model
Work from Office – because great stories are built in person!
Do you have an online presence?
https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)
For better insights:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11UHgXqYc7XSJ3IAdFyEm-EurgOzqsmzA/view?usp=sharing