Job Description

Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) -- India

Overview

As a senior DevOps Engineer, you will

own

the AWS infrastructure and DevOps toolchain for a high-scale ad serving system composed of asynchronous

Java microservices (Akka framework)

. Targets include

<50ms

response time and

up to 5M concurrent users

with

99.99% uptime

.

Responsibilities

Design & stand up AWS

environments end-to-end (landing zone, VPCs, networking, security, automation). Build

immutable infrastructure

and

CI/CD

for Java microservices (Maven/Gradle) including blue/green & canary releases and automated rollbacks. Implement

observability

: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs/SLIs, alerting, on-call runbooks. Engineer

reliability & performance

: autoscaling, caching layers, multi-AZ/region DR, capacity planning to support 5M+ concurrent users and p95/p99 latency goals. Establish

security-by-design

: IAM least privilege, KMS/Secrets Manager, WAF/Shield, image/signing policies, CIS benchmarks. Partner with EY developers & Performance Test Engineer to tune JVM/Akka, thread pools, GC, and infra limits based on load-testing feedback. Champion

cost governance

and tagging; produce dashboards and weekly reports.

Tech you'll use (you don't need every single one, but you know most)

AWS

: EKS/ECS, EC2, ALB/NLB, API Gateway/Lambda, S3/CloudFront, DynamoDB/ElastiCache (Redis), Aurora/RDS, MSK/Kinesis, OpenSearch, Route 53, VPC, NAT/GW, WAF/Shield, CloudWatch/X-Ray, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager.

IaC & CI/CD

: Terraform/CloudFormation, Helm, Argo CD or Flux, GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI, Docker.

Observability

: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, log pipelines.

Languages/Build

: Bash/Python for automation; familiarity with Java build/release workflows.

What makes you a great fit

3-5+ years total experience

;

Senior/Manager-level

depth in AWS platform engineering for

high-throughput, low-latency

services. Proven ownership of

production systems at 10k-1M+ concurrent users

(or comparable high RPS) with 99.9x SLOs. Hands-on with

Akka/Java microservice delivery pipelines

(nice if you've tuned JVM, GC, Akka dispatchers). Strong grounding in

scaling patterns

(event-driven, async IO, caching, backpressure, rate limiting) and

resilience

(circuit breakers, retries, chaos). Excellent collaboration, documentation, and stakeholder communication.

Logistics

Location

: Remote (prefer India candidates)

Schedule

: Must join

US morning calls (Eastern Time)

as needed.

Start

:

1-3 weeks

from offer.

Term

: Through

end of January

(likely extension).
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹800,000.00 - ₹1,600,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Paid sick time Paid time off Provident Fund
Work Location: Remote