Key Responsibilities:

- Own the AWS infrastructure end to end

- You are responsible for the health of our AWS environment. Not just aware of it, responsible for it.

- Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure: EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch and the rest of the stack.

- Know where every single production workload lives, what it depends on, and what breaks if it goes down. No black boxes you havent opened.

- Proactively identify and fix things that are fragile before they break in production, not after.

Build CI/CD that engineers actually trust

- Deploying software should be fast, safe, and boring. That is your goal.

- Own the CI/CD pipeline for our Java/Spring Boot microservices end to end. From code commit to production, with proper gates at every stage.

- Build rollback mechanisms that actually work. A deployment that cant be undone in under 5 minutes is a liability.

- Work with engineering teams to improve build times, reduce flakiness, and make deployments something developers do confidently, not nervously.

Take reliability seriously, not as a metric, as a mindset

- When something breaks, be the person who stays until it is understood, not just resolved. There is a difference.

- Write postmortems that find the real cause. Human error is never the root cause. Something in the system made human error possible, find that.

- Build runbooks, on-call rotations, and escalation paths that mean nobody has to improvise during an incident.

- Track and improve the metrics that matter: MTTR, deploy frequency, change failure rate. Make them go in the right direction every month.

Infrastructure as Code. No exceptions !

- Every resource in AWS should be declared in code. If it was clicked into existence in the console and isnt in terraform (or equivalent), it is tech debt and it is yours to clean up.

- Version control, review, and test infra changes the same way youd treat application code. No cowboy changes in prod.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

- 3+ years working in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role, ideally at a product company running real production workloads on AWS.

- Deep AWS hands-on experience. Not just familiar with, you should be able to design a resilient, secure, cost-efficient architecture on AWS from scratch and explain every tradeoff.

- You write infrastructure as code. Terraform preferred. If its not in version control, it doesnt exist.

- Strong CI/CD experience, building and maintaining pipelines for Java or similar backend services. You should be able to look at a pipeline and immediately spot what would go wrong at 10x the deploy frequency.

- You understand networking: VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, DNS. When someone says its a network issue you can verify that or prove it isnt.

- Experience with observability tooling: CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar. You know the difference between a dashboard and actual observability.

- PostgreSQL and DynamoDB operational experience. Their backups, replication, slow query investigation, connection pooling. Database failures are not someone elses problem.

- You have been on-call. You know what that means and you take it seriously.