Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer (AWS Production Launch – Contract)

Availability: Must align with US business hours
Mandatory: Full availability during launch phase

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to oversee our first production deployment on AWS and ensure infrastructure reliability through beta launch.

This is not a build-from-scratch role.
Our internal team has already developed:

• Terraform infrastructure code
• CI/CD pipelines
• Monitoring configuration

We need a production-experienced professional who has successfully taken systems live and understands what to monitor, validate, and safeguard during irreversible production operations.

Your role is to review, validate, supervise, stress-test, and support launch readiness.

Key ResponsibilitiesProduction Deployment Oversight

• Review Terraform production plans and verify staging vs production workspace isolation
• Oversee the first terraform apply in the production AWS account
• Execute and document RDS Multi-AZ failover drill (target: <60-second recovery)
• Verify all 13 ECS Fargate services start healthy with Service Connect mesh connectivity
• Configure PagerDuty integration for production CloudWatch alarms

Architecture Decision – WebSocket at Scale

• Load test 500 concurrent WebSocket connections through ALB
• Evaluate ALB (sticky sessions) vs NLB (TCP passthrough) for real-time GPS updates
• Deliver a written recommendation supported by performance data

Kinesis GPS Pipeline Optimization

• Tune 8-shard Kinesis Data Stream consumer for sustained throughput of 1000+ GPS records/second
• Validate burst scenario handling (500 devices reconnecting with ~300M buffered records)
• Evaluate Kinesis Data Analytics (Apache Flink) for GPS anomaly detection

Performance Baseline & Optimization

• Analyze RDS Performance Insights data from load tests
• Identify and recommend fixes for top 5 slow queries
• Right-size ECS task CPU/memory allocations based on utilization

Production Readiness & Launch

• Execute 5 incident simulation drills:
• RDS failover
• ECS task failure (kill 50%)
• Redis failover
• WAF rate limiting scenario
• Full rolling restart
• Participate in launch-day war room for pilot customer onboarding (150–300 vehicles)
• Deliver post-launch performance report

What This Role Does NOT Include

• Writing Terraform modules
• Building CI/CD pipelines
• Configuring CloudWatch dashboards, WAF rules, or GuardDuty
• Writing application code

This is a production oversight and launch-readiness leadership role.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years managing production AWS infrastructure
• Hands-on ECS Fargate experience with 10+ microservices
• Executed RDS Multi-AZ failover drills in production environments
• Kinesis Data Streams experience at scale (1000+ records/second)
• Strong Terraform proficiency (workspace management, state operations, plan review)
• WebSocket infrastructure experience (Socket.io, ALB/NLB, sticky sessions)
• Incident response and production readiness validation experience

Strongly Preferred

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional certification
• Experience with IoT data pipelines or vehicle telematics
• Kinesis Data Analytics (Apache Flink) experience
• Blue/Green deployment using CodeDeploy
• PagerDuty setup and on-call configuration
• Multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure experience

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹150,000.00 - ₹200,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person