AWS DevOps SME

Key Responsibilities DevOps Strategy and Engineering Practices • Define and drive DevOps strategy, standards, and tooling across cloud-hosted applications on AWS. • Establish engineering practices for automation, release management, and continuous delivery across multiple product teams. • Drive adoption of DevSecOps, GitOps, and platform-as-code practices. CI/CD and Release Management • Own the design and governance of enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy. • Standardize deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments. • Integrate automated testing, artifact management (Nexus, Artifactory, ECR), and quality gates into pipelines. • Embed security scanning using SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, or similar tools. Infrastructure as Code and Automation • Set IaC standards and reusable module libraries using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. • Drive automation of environment provisioning, configuration (Ansible), and operational tasks using Python or Bash. • Implement policy-as-code using AWS Config rules. Containers and Orchestration • Oversee containerized workloads on Amazon EKS and ECS, including cluster design, upgrades, scaling, and service mesh. • Govern Helm chart standards and GitOps delivery with ArgoCD or Flux. Reliability and Observability • Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; drive SRE practices across application teams. • Establish observability standards using CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, or Dynatrace. • Lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems for application and pipeline failures. Cloud Cost and Security in DevOps • Embed cost awareness into pipelines and environments (ephemeral environments, auto-scaling, Spot usage). • Ensure secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, or HashiCorp Vault. Technical Skills Required • 12–15 years in IT, with at least 8 years in DevOps or SRE and strong hands-on AWS experience. • Expert-level experience with CI/CD tools and enterprise pipeline design. • Deep expertise in Terraform and/or CloudFormation. • Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, and GitOps. • Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go. • Strong knowledge of observability, SRE practices, and DevSecOps tooling. • Solid Linux and networking fundamentals. Good to Have • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or Solutions Architect – Professional. • CKA, CKAD, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification. • Experience with serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions). • Experience in regulated industries such as banking or financial services (MAS TRM awareness).