Lead System Engineer

Minimum of 10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering and Administration.

Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives

3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role

Experience with SRE principles and transformation

3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning / Release, CI / CD, etc.)

Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.

Experience in Developing and / or challenging engineering solutions / practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)

Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience :

Building robust Middleware Environments

Previous Linux System administration is required.

Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.

Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud.

Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must -Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code.

Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.

Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.

Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).

Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.

Minimum of One AWS certification is required.

Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus.

A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git / repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.

Solid understanding and experience with a CI / CD tool chain.

Qualifications :

• 10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; master's degree preferred.
• [5-10] years of experience in cloud engineering and automation, with a focus on AWS cloud services.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration.
• 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role
• 3+ years of experience with implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google, etc.), DevOps tool chain (Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning / Release, CI / CD, etc.)
• Must be well versed in Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Exposure to Artificial intelligence patterns, Machine Learning and engineering of AWS solutions. Good knowledge of leveraging Amazon Kendra, SageMaker, Lambda, Bedrock, Rag models etc.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Minimum of 1 AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer is required.
• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment preferred.
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with
• Hands-on experience with CI / CD pipelines, containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless computing is a plus.
• full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
• Experience in Developing and / or challenging engineering solutions / practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Developers, Architects, and Engineers)

Roles & Responsibilities :

o (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.

Strong skills are desired in each of the following areas :

Development : Experience programming with one or more languages : Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.

IAC Tools for Platform Automation : Strong skills and experience in at least one : Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK.

Containers : Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus

Container Orchestration Platform : Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus.

CNI Plugins : Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc.

Service Mesh : Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.

Container Security Tools : Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus,

Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools : Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.

DevOps Tools : Git / Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc.

Other Required Skills :

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

Licenses / Certifications

AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required.

FinOps Certification is a Plus.