Lead AWS Engineer

Overview

Lead AWS Engineer responsible for building, operating, and improving a reliable, scalable AWS platform. The role includes incident leadership, automation, observability, technical mentoring, and collaboration with US-based stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Lead incident triage, troubleshooting, and resolution across core AWS services.
• Implement reliability improvements through automation, monitoring, and architectural optimization.
• Build Python or PowerShell automation for self-healing workflows.
• Enforce AWS security practices, including least privilege and access reviews.
• Manage SSM fleet operations, patching, remote execution, and automation.
• Govern S3 storage, lifecycle policies, encryption, access controls, and data protection.
• Lead on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and drive platform improvements.

What you'll need

• 6–8 years of experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Strong AWS experience across EC2, S3, SSM, IAM, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, SCPs, SSO, VPC, RDS, and AWS AI Services.
• Strong automation experience with Python and Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Understanding of IAM, security best practices, and cloud governance.
• Experience with CloudWatch or equivalent observability tools.
• Strong collaboration skills with distributed or global teams.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Collaborate with US-based stakeholders during overlapping business hours.
• Participate in on-call rotations for P1/P2 incidents.
• Position level: Senior Associate.