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).