AWS DevOps Lead

• Location: Mumbai
• It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing!
• We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

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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• Additional Locations: Bengaluru