- Company Name
- Direct IT Recruiting Inc.
- Job Title
- Director of Engineering – AWS Cloud/DevOps (1802)
- Job Description
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Job Title: Director of Engineering – AWS Cloud/DevOps
Role Summary:
Strategic leader responsible for the architecture, delivery, and continuous improvement of AWS-based cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. Oversees CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, security, and AI-driven operations to ensure scalable, resilient, and cost-effective platform readiness. Manages a high-performing engineering operations team and aligns technical initiatives with business objectives.
Expectations:
- Lead cross‑functional technical strategy and execution, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Deliver secure, fault‑tolerant AWS environments while driving automation and AI‑powered monitoring.
- Maintain compliance, security posture, and cost efficiency.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, mentorship, and high performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and evolve secure AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, CloudFront).
- Define and implement CloudOps & DevOps strategy, including CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), and automation.
- Build and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or TeamCity.
- Operationalize AI/ML systems, AIOps frameworks, predictive scaling, and anomaly detection.
- Enforce IAM, network segmentation, compliance, and DevSecOps best practices.
- Lead disaster recovery planning, observability, logging, and monitoring initiatives.
- Manage and mentor a cross‑functional engineering operations team.
- Collaborate with security, compliance, and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives.
Required Skills:
- Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, CloudFront).
- Proficiency with Terraform, CI/CD tools, container orchestration, Kubernetes, and DevOps tooling.
- Strong background in observability, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery, and AIOps.
- Experience with IAM, network segmentation, compliance, security, and DevSecOps.
- Operational experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB, and MongoDB.
- Proven leadership, mentorship, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Preferred certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or equivalent.