Observability & ops: Standardize metrics/logs/traces with CloudWatch/Datadog codify dashboards, alerts, and runbooks. Drive cost visibility and guardrails.
Developer experience: Ship self‑service templates, Backstage scaffolds/golden paths, and documentation that make the paved road the easiest road.
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years in DevOps/Platform/SRE roles operating production systems.
Advanced Terraform and/or AWS CDK (TypeScript/Python); authored reusable modules/constructs and remote state strategies.
AWS depth: VPC design (subnets, routing, NAT, TGW), ALB/NLB, ECS/EKS/Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, KMS; experience with Control Tower/Organizations/SCPs.
Containers & GitOps: Docker image build/hardening, Kubernetes and/or ECS operations.
Security‑first mindset: Secrets management, encryption, vulnerability scanning, image signing/SBOMs, Policy-as‑Code;
CI/CD & testing: Pipelines with unit/integration/e2e gates, environment promotion, and rollback strategies.
Operations: On‑call participation, incident management, and post‑incident improvement.
Nice to Haves
Backstage or internal developer platform (IDP) experience; golden‑path templates.
Network security (WAF, Zero‑Trust), data security (PII tokenization/DLP), or compliance program experience.
Additional policy‑as‑code tools: AWS Config conformance packs, CloudFormation Guard, tfsec/Checkov, Snyk.
Cost management: CUR/Cost Explorer, anomaly detection, unit economics/chargeback, Savings Plans/RI strategy.
Certifications: AWS DevOps/Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Kubernetes CKA/CKAD.