Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

About the role

A senior AWS DevOps Engineer position based in Singapore, open to candidates with 8-12 years of experience, including at least 8 years in DevOps/SRE. The role covers end-to-end delivery of AWS-hosted applications, from CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code to observability, security and cost optimization.

Key responsibilities

• Define DevOps standards, tools and engineering practices across AWS-hosted applications.
• Design, manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release processes and deployment strategies.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Python or Bash.
• Manage containerized applications with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS and Helm.
• Implement GitOps workflows using Argo CD or Flux.
• Integrate security scanning, secrets management and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Set up monitoring, logging, alerting and reliability practices with observability tools.
• Drive SRE practices, incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Optimize cloud costs, resource utilization, scalability and application performance.
• Provide technical leadership and promote DevSecOps and automation best practices.

Required profile

• 8-12 years of IT experience, including at least 8 years in DevOps/SRE with strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or AWS CodePipeline.
• Strong expertise in Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm and GitOps.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash or Go scripting.
• Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch or Datadog.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, security scanning, secrets management and cloud cost optimization.
• Solid Linux administration, networking and troubleshooting skills; knowledge of SRE principles, high availability and incident management.
• Preferred: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect Professional, CKA, CKAD or HashiCorp Terraform Associate certifications; serverless experience (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions); regulated industry or financial services background.