TechOps Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)

Job Description: TechOps Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud) Department: Technology / Engineering Reports To: Director of Engineering / CTO Location: [Remote / Hybrid / Onsite] Employment Type: Full-Time Role Overview We are seeking a highly experienced TechOps SME/Lead Engineer with deep expertise in Cloud to lead our cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, reliability engineering, and operational excellence initiatives. This role is both strategic and hands-on responsible for designing scalable architectures, improving automation, ensuring system reliability, and leading the TechOps team. Key Responsibilities AWS/Oracle Infrastructure Leadership Architect and manage secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on AWS. Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations. Implement VPC architecture, IAM policies, networking, and security best practices. Oversee EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and related AWS services. Optimize AWS cost management and resource utilization. Reliability & Production Operations Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices. Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Manage monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana). Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems. Ensure 24/7 uptime and operational resilience. Security & Compliance Implement IAM best practices and least-privilege access controls. Manage secrets and key management (AWS KMS, Secrets Manager). Conduct vulnerability management and patching. Support compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR as applicable). Lead disaster recovery planning and backup strategies. Leadership & Strategy Lead and mentor a team of DevOps / TechOps/Tools/ Service Now / Okta engineers. Establish operational KPIs and performance benchmarks. Manage on-call rotations and escalation processes. Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams. Contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy and cloud roadmap. Required Qualifications Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure roles. 3+ years leading technical teams. Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda). Deep knowledge of networking, Linux systems, and distributed systems. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation). Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar). Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes (EKS preferred). Key Competencies Strong architectural thinking Hands-on technical leadership Crisis and incident management Strategic planning and execution Excellent cross-functional communication Success Metrics 99.9%+ production uptime Reduced deployment lead time Reduced incident frequency and MTTR Improved cost efficiency High-performing and scalable TechOps function If you'd like, I can also provide: A short version for LinkedIn posting A CTO-level executive version A startup (01 scale) version A detailed KPI-based performance scorecard A salary band guide by region .