Technical Lead

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible for configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong Linux administration and operating system troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting both on-premises and AWS cloud-based enterprise applications and infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), Elastic Load Balancers (ALB/NLB), Route 53, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, EFS, CloudWatch, Systems Manager (SSM), KMS, Secrets Manager, and AWS Backup.
• Proven experience in cloud transformation and migration initiatives from on-premises environments to AWS.
• Strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience supporting business-critical production systems.
• Experience managing production incidents, problem management, root cause analysis (RCA), disaster recovery, and service restoration.
• Hands-on experience supporting Java/J2EE applications, WebLogic, Tomcat, or similar middleware platforms in production environments.
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, or similar tools.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, Shell scripting, or PowerShell.
• Solid understanding of Layer 4 and Layer 7 networking concepts, load balancing, DNS, SSL/TLS certificates, WAF, CDN, firewall technologies, and hybrid connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management using tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience with AWS security services, IAM roles and policies, Secrets Manager, KMS encryption, CloudTrail, Security Hub, and security best practices.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, resiliency, and multi-region architectures.
• Experience supporting and optimizing Auto Scaling, elastic workloads, and cloud cost optimization initiatives.
• Knowledge of release management, change management, incident management, and ITIL service management processes.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills across infrastructure, application, database, middleware, and network layers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to drive technical discussions, operational excellence, and cloud transformation initiatives.