Iris Software - Associate Manager - AWS

Job description :

We are seeking a highly driven Project Lead / Associate Manager with deep expertise in AWS cloud platforms and modern infrastructure practices. This role combines technical leadership, client-facing ownership, and team enablement across multiple initiatives. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, proactively unblocks teams, and serves as a trusted technical advisor for cloud-native and AI/ML-enabled solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead and oversee multiple AWS-based delivery initiatives in parallel

- Act as the primary technical point of contact for client stakeholders

- Architect and guide cloud solutions leveraging AWS best practices

- Mentor and enable offshore teams, ensuring progress during distributed working hours

- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks; unblock teams effectively

- Drive infrastructure automation and platform maturity

- Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to support ML infrastructure, pipelines, and deployments

- Ensure security, reliability, scalability, and cost-awareness across cloud workloads

Skills & Experience :

- 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering AWS projects, with overall 10+ years of experience

- Deep understanding of core AWS services (IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Sagemaker etc.)

- Strong expertise in container technologies (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)

- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK preferred; Terraform acceptable)

- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD workflow automation

- Understanding of the AI/ML ecosystem, including model deployment and ML infrastructure patterns

- Experience owning client communication, technical discussions, and delivery updates

- Ability to support and unblock teams during offshore working hours

- Self-driven, proactive, and accountable with a strong ownership mindset

Nice to Have :

- Experience with MLOps platforms and ML pipelines

- Exposure to cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices

- Prior people-management or delivery-lead experience