AWS SRE Devops Lead Cloud engineer

Sonata Software; Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sonata Software invites a Lead SRE Cloud Engineer to join its Hyderabad team to design and run scalable AWS infrastructure, champion IaC, and drive DevOps practices across product and engineering teams.

You will implement CI/CD pipelines, ensure observability, security, and cost efficiency, mentor staff, and help standardize platform components while delivering reliable digital services.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with AWS services and cloud architectures.
• Proven ability to design and operate cloud-native solutions on AWS.
• IaC experience using Terraform and modular design.
• Containerisation with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Strong Git workflows and source control practices.
• Hands-on with observability using CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk.
• Experience with SRE practices including SLI/SLO/SLA management.
• Troubleshooting production incidents and performing RCA.
• Linux administration and networking knowledge.
• Networking concepts: DNS, VPN, CDN, Load Balancers, TLS.
• Experience with VPC, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, NATs.
• Python or Bash scripting for automation.
• Cloud security, IAM, encryption, secrets management.
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization familiarity.
• Automation for remediation workflows and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Create and maintain IaC solutions using Terraform.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management and deployment processes.
• Drive DevOps culture across development and operations teams.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for frequent releases.
• Collaborate with engineers to define cloud-native solutions.
• Implement monitoring, observability, alerting and logging.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance and scalability.
• Support incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Implement cloud security best practices including IAM and network security.
• Optimise cloud costs and contribute to FinOps.
• Define and document cloud architecture, runbooks and procedures.
• Collaborate to ensure environments align with delivery needs.

Skills

AWS cloud

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Python Bash

Linux admin

Networking

Security best practices

FinOps

Observability

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Datadog

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Lead SRE Cloud Engineer

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and industry best practices.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployment processes.
• Drive DevOps culture and automation across development and operations teams.
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and frequent releases.
• Collaborate with Software Engineers, Technical Leads and Architects to define cloud-native solutions and deployment strategies.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting and logging solutions across all environments.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, scalability and operational excellence.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities.
• Implement and maintain cloud security best practices including IAM, network security, secrets management and compliance controls.
• Optimise cloud resource utilisation and contribute to FinOps initiatives to improve cost efficiency.
• Define and document cloud architecture, technical designs, operational procedures and runbooks.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure environments are aligned with delivery needs.
• Contribute to platform standardisation, reusable tooling and engineering governance initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing, workshops and technical mentoring.
• Delivery. Build and maintain reliable cloud platforms according to engineering standards.
• Code Quality. Follow and improve Infrastructure as Code and automation standards.
• Analyse & Estimate. Assess infrastructure requirements, technical risks and implementation effort.
• Software & Infrastructure Design. Create and review cloud architecture designs and infrastructure solutions.

Requirements

• Strong experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch and Systems Manager (SSM).
• Strong experience designing, implementing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, reusable modules and infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar platforms.
• Strong experience with source control management and Git-based development workflows.
• Strong experience with observability platforms including CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk and ELK.
• Strong experience with monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, distributed tracing and application performance monitoring.
• Strong experience implementing operational excellence practices including SLI, SLO and SLA management.
• Strong experience troubleshooting production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving preventative measures.
• Good experience with Linux administration, networking and system troubleshooting.
• Good experience with networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, VPN, CDN, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies and TLS/SSL certificates.
• Good experience with AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, NAT Gateways and PrivateLink.
• Good experience developing automation solutions using Python, Bash or similar technologies.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices including IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management and vulnerability remediation.
• Strong experience with AWS Security Hub, compliance frameworks and security remediation activities.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and integrating automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience evaluating and integrating cloud security tooling for vulnerability assessments, penetration testing and threat modelling.
• Experience supporting microservices and distributed architectures in production environments.
• Experience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Strong experience with cloud cost optimisation, FinOps practices and cloud consumption governance.
• Experience using Cloudability or similar cloud financial management platforms to drive cloud visibility, optimisation and reporting.
• Experience defining and implementing cloud tagging strategies, governance standards and operational compliance controls.
• Experience designing and implementing automated remediation workflows.
• Experience creating operational dashboards, alerting frameworks, reliability metrics and engineering KPIs.
• Experience driving cloud migration initiatives, account onboarding and AWS platform transformations.
• Experience building reusable platform components, self-service capabilities and developer enablement tooling.
• Experience creating technical solution designs, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks and engineering documentation.
• Strong understanding of cloud platform services as both a producer and consumer.
• Strong understanding of release management, deployment strategies and environment management.
• Strong experience with Agile delivery methodologies and engineering tooling including Jira, Confluence and GitHub.
• DevOps as a mindset.
• Customer-centric, passionate about delivering reliable digital platforms and services.
• Demonstrating a true engineering craftsmanship mindset.
• Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with excellent communication skills.
• Open-minded, inquisitive, life-long learner.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and highly autonomous.