01Overview
*Lead Platform / DevOps Engineer*
About the Role
We are looking for a Lead Platform / DevOps Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of our cloud infrastructure, from Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to production operations. This is an engineering-focused role where you will design, build, automate, and continuously improve a scalable AWS platform supporting a high-growth SaaS product.
You will work closely with development teams and report directly to the Head of Engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules and blueprints for microservices teams.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
- Establish secure infrastructure practices based on least privilege and zero-trust principles.
- Manage credentials, certificates, keys, and their rotation.
- Design autoscaling, capacity planning, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Implement infrastructure monitoring, observability, and automated drift detection.
- Establish policy-as-code and infrastructure validation processes.
- Plan and execute production changes using documented runbooks and tested rollback procedures.
- Lead incident reviews and postmortems and implement improvements based on lessons learned.
- Partner with developers to establish infrastructure standards and best practices.
Requirements
- 510 years of platform/DevOps engineering experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on AWS experience.
- Robust experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and infrastructure design.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services such as ECR, ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, MSK/Kafka, Aurora Serverless, SNS/SQS, CloudFront, S3, Route 53, and IAM.
- Experience scaling SaaS platforms and designing highly available, secure, resilient, observable, and elastic infrastructure.
- Experience with Terraform testing, CI/CD, a .
