Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Role description

Position Details

Role: AWS Cloud Engineer

Experience: 6–8 Years

Location: Bangalore

Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with 6–8 years of experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-native applications on AWS. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, Amazon ECS, containerized microservices, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and AWS cloud operations.

The role involves building scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions while independently managing AWS cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Deploy, manage, and optimize containerized applications using Amazon ECS (Fargate & EC2 launch types).

Build, deploy, and support microservices-based applications on AWS.

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

Automate infrastructure provisioning using:

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Configure and manage AWS networking services:

VPC

Route 53

Load Balancers (ALB/NLB)

NAT Gateway

Security Groups

Monitor infrastructure and applications using:

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS CloudTrail

AWS X-Ray

Implement AWS security best practices:

IAM

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS KMS

Least-Privilege Access

Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot deployments and optimize application performance.

Manage container images using Amazon ECR.

Support cloud migration, modernization, and production releases.

Perform incident management, root cause analysis, and production support.

Ensure AWS infrastructure is highly available, scalable, secure, and cost optimized.

Participate in cloud architecture discussions and engineering best practices.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in:

Computer Science

Information Technology

Engineering

Or equivalent practical experience

Required Experience

6–8 years of experience in Cloud Engineering or DevOps.

Minimum 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience.

Strong experience with Amazon ECS.

Experience deploying containerized microservices.

Hands-on expertise with Docker.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code:

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Strong knowledge of AWS services:

ECS

EC2

VPC

IAM

S3

RDS

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Elastic Load Balancer (ALB/NLB)

Auto Scaling

Amazon ECR

Experience with CI/CD tools:

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline

Strong Linux administration skills.

Experience with Git version control.

Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

Good understanding of AWS networking and cloud security.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Experience with Amazon EKS or Kubernetes

Experience with:

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

Knowledge of monitoring tools:

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Splunk

Experience implementing deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, Rolling, etc.).

Exposure to AI/ML application deployment.

Knowledge of event-driven services:

Amazon SQS

Amazon SNS

Amazon EventBridge

Scripting experience using:

Python

Bash

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Understanding of AWS cost optimization and FinOps.

Skills

AWS CloudFormation, Amazon ECS, Amazon ECR, CI/CD

About UST

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact - touching billions of lives in the process.