Lead AWS Engineer

Description

Requirements:

• Lead end-to-end incident triage, troubleshooting, and resolution acrossEC2, S3, SSM, IAM, ECS, Lambda, Step Function, SCPs, SSO, VPC,RDS, AWS AI Services, and ECS environments
• Design and implement platform reliability improvements through automation, monitoring, and architectural optimizations
• Build and maintain automation solutions (Python/Powershell) to eliminate manual tasks and enable self-healing workflows
• Enforce AWS security best practices including IAM least privilege, credential hygiene, and periodic access reviews
• Leverage AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for fleet management, patching, remote execution, and automation
• Manage and govern S3 storage including lifecycle policies, encryption, access controls, and data protection standards
• Collaborate closely with US-based stakeholders during overlapping business hours for operations and escalations
• Participate in and lead on-call rotations, handling P1/P2 incidents and ensuring timely resolution
• Mentor junior engineers, review solutions, and drive best practices in platform engineering and operations
• Continuously identify and deliver improvements that increase deployment success rate, platform stability, and operational efficiency

Preferences:

• 6–8 years of experience in cloud infrastructure/platform engineering, with strong AWS exposure
• Proven hands-on troubleshooting expertise across EC2, S3, SSM, IAM, ECS, Lambda, Step Function, SCPs, SSO, VPC, RDS, AWS AIServices
• Mandatory: Strong automation experience (Python, Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Solid understanding of IAM, security best practices, and cloud governance
• Experience with observability tools (CloudWatch or equivalent logging/monitoring platforms)
• Strong collaboration skills, especially working with distributed/global teams

Position Level

Senior Associate

Country

India