AWS DevOps SME

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Strategy and Engineering Practices

• Define and drive DevOps strategy, standards, and tooling across cloud-hosted applications on AWS.

• Establish engineering practices for automation, release management, and continuous delivery across multiple product teams.

• Drive adoption of DevSecOps, GitOps, and platform-as-code practices.

CI/CD and Release Management

• Own the design and governance of enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy.

• Standardize deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments.

• Integrate automated testing, artifact management (Nexus, Artifactory, ECR), and quality gates into pipelines.

• Embed security scanning using SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, or similar tools.

Infrastructure as Code and Automation

• Set IaC standards and reusable module libraries using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

• Drive automation of environment provisioning, configuration (Ansible), and operational tasks using Python or Bash.

• Implement policy-as-code using AWS Config rules.

Containers and Orchestration

• Oversee containerized workloads on Amazon EKS and ECS, including cluster design, upgrades, scaling, and service mesh.

• Govern Helm chart standards and GitOps delivery with ArgoCD or Flux.

Reliability and Observability

• Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; drive SRE practices across application teams.

• Establish observability standards using CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, or Dynatrace.

• Lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems for application and pipeline failures.

Cloud Cost and Security in DevOps

• Embed cost awareness into pipelines and environments (ephemeral environments, auto-scaling, Spot usage).

• Ensure secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, or HashiCorp Vault.

Technical Skills Required

• 12–15 years in IT, with at least 8 years in DevOps or SRE and strong hands-on AWS experience.

• Expert-level experience with CI/CD tools and enterprise pipeline design.

• Deep expertise in Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, and GitOps.

• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.

• Strong knowledge of observability, SRE practices, and DevSecOps tooling.

• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals.

Good to Have

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or Solutions Architect – Professional.

• CKA, CKAD, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification.

• Experience with serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions).

• Experience in regulated industries such as banking or financial services (MAS TRM awareness).