Senior Technical Lead DevOps - AWS

Role overview

Senior DevOps Engineer / Technical Lead (AWS)

You will drive operational excellence by designing and maintaining reliable delivery pipelines and cloud/data-center infrastructure. You’ll mentor a team, optimize deployment and cloud resource usage, and implement monitoring and security improvements.

Responsibilities

• CI/CD: Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) to automate build, test, and deployment.
• Infrastructure as Code: Manage and configure infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and security (including on-prem data center configurations).
• Monitoring & Alerting: Implement and maintain monitoring/alerting using AWS CloudWatch and other tools to ensure health and performance.
• Production troubleshooting: Collaborate with development/operations to troubleshoot and resolve issues in production, with deep understanding of on-prem data center integration.
• DevOps best practices: Continuously improve DevOps processes, tools, and workflows (focused on data center technologies).
• Cost & performance optimization: Optimize AWS resource usage and costs while maintaining high availability and performance, using AWS database services and cloud-native technologies.
• Security & compliance: Implement certificate upgrades, migrations, and other security tasks to meet industry standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering with expertise in data center technologies.
• Strong experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of Docker and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Networking fundamentals, security best practices, and infrastructure automation with a data-center security focus.
• Strong problem-solving/troubleshooting and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT (or equivalent practical experience).

Nice to have

• Advanced certifications in DevOps, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Strategic planning/project management skills and ability to prioritize by business impact.
• Experience with status tracking/reporting and accurate estimation of testing/deployment efforts.

Location / work style

• Anywhere in the World (HQ: Mexico).