Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer (AWS Production Launch – Contract) Availability: Must align with US business hours Mandatory: Full availability during launch phase About the Role We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to oversee our first production deployment on AWS and ensure infrastructure reliability through beta launch. This is not a build-from-scratch role. Our internal team has already developed: • Terraform infrastructure code • CI/CD pipelines • Monitoring configuration We need a production-experienced professional who has successfully taken systems live and understands what to monitor, validate, and safeguard during irreversible production operations. Your role is to review, validate, supervise, stress-test, and support launch readiness. Key ResponsibilitiesProduction Deployment Oversight • Review Terraform production plans and verify staging vs production workspace isolation • Oversee the first terraform apply in the production AWS account • Execute and document RDS Multi-AZ failover drill (target: <60-second recovery) • Verify all 13 ECS Fargate services start healthy with Service Connect mesh connectivity • Configure PagerDuty integration for production CloudWatch alarms Architecture Decision – WebSocket at Scale • Load test 500 concurrent WebSocket connections through ALB • Evaluate ALB (sticky sessions) vs NLB (TCP passthrough) for real-time GPS updates • Deliver a written recommendation supported by performance data Kinesis GPS Pipeline Optimization • Tune 8-shard Kinesis Data Stream consumer for sustained throughput of 1000+ GPS records/second • Validate burst scenario handling (500 devices reconnecting with ~300M buffered records) • Evaluate Kinesis Data Analytics (Apache Flink) for GPS anomaly detection Performance Baseline & Optimization • Analyze RDS Performance Insights data from load tests • Identify and recommend fixes for top 5 slow queries • Right-size ECS task CPU/memory allocations based on utilization Production Readiness & Launch • Execute 5 incident simulation drills: • RDS failover • ECS task failure (kill 50%) • Redis failover • WAF rate limiting scenario • Full rolling restart • Participate in launch-day war room for pilot customer onboarding (150–300 vehicles) • Deliver post-launch performance report What This Role Does NOT Include • Writing Terraform modules • Building CI/CD pipelines • Configuring CloudWatch dashboards, WAF rules, or GuardDuty • Writing application code This is a production oversight and launch-readiness leadership role. Required Qualifications • 5+ years managing production AWS infrastructure • Hands-on ECS Fargate experience with 10+ microservices • Executed RDS Multi-AZ failover drills in production environments • Kinesis Data Streams experience at scale (1000+ records/second) • Strong Terraform proficiency (workspace management, state operations, plan review) • WebSocket infrastructure experience (Socket.io, ALB/NLB, sticky sessions) • Incident response and production readiness validation experience Strongly Preferred • AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional certification • Experience with IoT data pipelines or vehicle telematics • Kinesis Data Analytics (Apache Flink) experience • Blue/Green deployment using CodeDeploy • PagerDuty setup and on-call configuration • Multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure experience If you want, I can now make a high-authority executive version that attracts only senior 8–12 year experienced DevOps candidates. Job Type: Contractual / Temporary Pay: ₹250,000.00 - ₹350,000.00 per month Work Location: In person