Amura Health - Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS Infrastructure

About the job :

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 :

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Were 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 server less computing and event-driven architectures.

- Experience with cost governance tools and FinOps practices