AWS DevOps / CICD Engineer

AWS DevOps / CICD Engineer

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to lead the design, automation, and operation of large-scale, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS. In this role you will set the technical direction for CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and observability, mentor junior engineers, and partner with architecture, development, and security teams to drive reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across mission-critical environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect AWS infrastructure end-to-end using (AWS CDK), establishing reusable modules and standards.

• Design, build, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy.

• Lead container strategy and orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS, including cluster design, scaling, and upgrade management.

• Define and implement observability standards — monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting — using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK stack, or Datadog.

• Embed security and compliance into the platform: IAM governance, network segmentation (VPC), encryption, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.

• Own cloud cost optimisation, capacity planning, and performance tuning across accounts and environments.

• Establish and champion DevOps best practices, automation standards, and GitOps workflows across teams.

• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, and contribute to hiring and technical reviews.

• Collaborate with architecture and engineering leadership on platform roadmap and technology decisions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on DevOps/cloud engineering experience, with deep expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, ELB, CloudFront, EKS/ECS).

• Proven track record designing and scaling CI/CD pipelines in production

• Strong experience with Docker and container orchestration at scale (Kubernetes/EKS or ECS).

• Advanced scripting/automation skills in Python and Bash.

• Deep understanding of networking, Linux system administration, and cloud security architecture.

• Demonstrated experience with monitoring/observability tooling

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Solutions Architect – Professional.

• Exposure to compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA) and regulated/enterprise-scale environments.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.