Principal AWS Site Reliability Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, highly available, and resilient AWS infrastructure.

• Lead cloud infrastructure engineering and reliability initiatives across AWS environments.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation (YAML).

• Design and manage AWS services including EC2, ECS, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, Lambda, SQS, S3, EFS, and RDS.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational processes.

• Establish best practices for reliability, scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recovery.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues and perform root-cause analysis.

• Develop automation and operational tooling using Python.

• Collaborate with application, security, DevOps, and engineering teams to deliver robust cloud solutions.

• Contribute to cloud architecture standards, engineering practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Significant experience in AWS architecture, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and enterprise infrastructure.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification preferred/required.

• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and CloudFormation YAML.

• Hands-on experience with: EC2, ECS, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, Lambda, SQS, S3, EFS, RDS

• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.

• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures.

• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and technical leadership capabilities.

• Ability to work across architecture, engineering, development, and operations teams.