AWS DevOps Lead

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• *About the Role**
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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**
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• 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**
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• **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**
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• 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**
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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?**
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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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