Lead DevOps Engineer

Role: Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Experience: 7-12 years

Location: Hyderabad

Fission Labs, headquartered in Sunnyvale, with offices in Dallas & Hyderabad, Fission Labs is a leading software development company, specializing in crafting flexible, agile, and scalable solutions that propel businesses forward. With a comprehensive range of services, including product development, cloud engineering, big data analytics, QA, DevOps consulting, and AI/ML solutions, we empower clients to achieve sustainable digital transformation that aligns seamlessly with their business goals.

What are we looking for!

A skilled AWS DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience to manage CI/CD pipelines, environments, and cloud deployments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for automating deployment processes, managing environments, handling AWS secret management, and supporting DevOps operations using Jenkins, ANT, and GitLab.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, highly available, and secure AWS cloud architectures using services including EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, Route 53, API Gateway, CloudFront, Cognito, and IAM.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation, ensuring infrastructure provisioning is automated, repeatable, version-controlled, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Architect and optimize AWS storage, monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other monitoring frameworks to improve system reliability, performance, and compliance.
• Design, deploy, and administer Kubernetes environments for containerized workloads, including cluster configuration, workload management, scaling, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Build robust infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible, minimizing manual intervention and improving deployment consistency across environments.
• Architect and configure Load Balancers, WAF, and Route 53 to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, secure traffic management, DNS resilience, and protection against application-layer threats.
• Implement and manage DynamoDB and AWS Secrets Manager for scalable data management, secure credential storage, secret rotation, and application configuration.
• Design and integrate AWS SES for reliable, secure, and scalable application-based email communication, including monitoring and troubleshooting delivery issues.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild, integrating automated testing, quality gates, artifact management, security checks, and automated deployments across multiple environments.
• Establish and enforce AWS security best practices, including IAM policies, role-based access control, least-privilege access, identity management, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, security, and production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational processes, improve deployment efficiency, reduce infrastructure costs, and enhance platform reliability.
• Manage and support enterprise DevOps operations using Jenkins, ANT, and GitLab, including pipeline maintenance, build automation, release management, and integration with existing engineering workflows.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and architecture teams to establish DevOps best practices, deployment standards, and production readiness guidelines.
• Drive improvements in system reliability, deployment frequency, observability, security posture, and operational efficiency through continuous evaluation and automation.

You would enjoy

• Opportunity to work on impactful technical challenges with global reach.
  Vast opportunities for self-development, including online university access and knowledge sharing opportunities.
• Sponsored Tech Talks & Hackathons to foster innovation and learning.
• Generous benefits packages including health insurance, retirement benefits, flexible work hours, and more.
• Supportive work environment with forums to explore passions beyond work.