AWS DevOps Lead

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About the Role

We are looking for a AWS DevOps Lead with strong hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD and production engineering. This role is suited for an engineer with a strong builder mindset who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems and creating scalable, reliable and automated platforms.

What You'll Do

• Design, build and maintain highly available, scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS.
• Build automation to reduce manual operational effort and improve engineering productivity.
• Design, develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation-first engineering practices.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across AWS infrastructure, Linux, networking, applications and deployment pipelines.
• Participate in production support and on-call activities, taking end-to-end ownership of incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Partner closely with software engineering teams to design and enable cloud-native solutions.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, scalability, security, performance and developer experience.
• Build reusable automation and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Evaluate AI-powered engineering solutions that can improve operational efficiency and developer productivity.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, operational runbooks and engineering best practices.

What We're Looking For

• 8–12 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, AWS Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE or similar engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with AWS services and capabilities such as: EC2, EBS, S3, VPC and VPC Endpoints, Transit Gateway, Security Groups and NACLs, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, including process management, memory, file systems, system performance and shell scripting.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, load balancing, firewalls and VPN concepts.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in at least one of Python, Go, Java or Bash.
• Hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and a good understanding of modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with GitHub Actions for build and deployment automation.
• Strong production troubleshooting, debugging and root-cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience building reusable automation or self-service tooling.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

Good to Have

• Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus or Datadog.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Understanding of AWS cloud security and infrastructure security best practices.
• AWS certification(s).

What Will Make You Successful in This Role

You are someone who:

• Thinks automation first and looks for opportunities to engineer manual work out of the system.
• Has a strong builder mindset and enjoys solving difficult infrastructure problems.
• Takes ownership of production systems rather than simply operating them.
• Has strong debugging instincts and enjoys getting to the root cause of complex problems.
• Balances reliability, scalability, security and developer experience.
• Is curious about emerging engineering technologies, including AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Continuously learns and helps raise the engineering standards of the wider team.

Why Fractal?

At Fractal, you'll have the opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, cloud and modern engineering, solving challenging problems at scale alongside multidisciplinary engineering and technology teams.

If you enjoy building rather than just maintaining, automating rather than manually operating and solving complex cloud infrastructure problems, we'd love to hear from you.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

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