AWS Cloud Operations Site Reliability Engineer

- Lead the release management process for AWS platforms across various environments, including validation, regression testing, and readiness assessments. - Manage and enhance core AWS services including VPC, IAM, KMS, Route 53, and related networking baselines and guidelines. - Design, maintain, and scale cloud infrastructures using Terraform as the primary Infrastructure as Code tool. - Create reusable Terraform modules encompassing networking, compute resources, storage, EKS, and security. - Ensure compliance with best practices for IaC: version control, immutability, peer reviews, and automation through CI/CD. - Deploy, oversee, and sustain production-level AWS EKS clusters, managing node groups and cluster add-ons. - Establish Kubernetes standards for security, networking, namespaces, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and secrets management. - Collaborate closely with application teams to ensure reliable and secure workload operations within EKS. - Optimize cluster scaling, workload scheduling, resource allocation, and performance tuning. - Direct the entire AMI lifecycle, including creation, hardening, vulnerability assessments, tagging, and deprecation. - Automate AMI pipelines using image builders and validation processes. - Maintain golden images for EC2 fleets, containers, and hybrid workloads. - Lead vulnerability, integration, and integrity testing, including assessments and compliance tracking. - Oversee OS-level and image patching using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Patch Manager and automated maintenance windows. - Create patch baselines, dashboards, compliance reports, and ensure adherence to measurable service level agreements (SLAs). - Construct and sustain an observability stack utilizing CloudWatch, X Ray, OpenTelemetry, and log analytics to achieve comprehensive visibility into application performance and behavior. - Develop dashboards for key performance indicators, including latency, traffic, errors, and overall system saturation for both infrastructure and applications. - Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments, employing advanced workflows and deployment strategies. - Actively participate in on-call rotations, leading incident triage and root cause investigations. - Create automation and documentation to minimize unnecessary operational workloads and drive improvements in system availability and performance. - Produce high-quality infrastructure design documents, runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, release notes, and architectural diagrams. - Conduct operational readiness evaluations, capacity planning, and cost optimization assessments.