Senior AWS DevOps Engineer – Windows & SQL Focus

EWS Group; Pakistan; On-site; PKR 3,500,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading Salary

Medical Coverage - Self & Dependents

Provident Fund

Employee Performance-based bonuses

Home Internet Subsidy

Conveyance Allowance

Profit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees

Life Benefit

Child Care Facility

Company Provided Lunch/Dinner

Professional Development Budget

Recreational area for in-house games

Sporadic On-shore training opps

Friendly work environment

Job summary

Contour Software seeks a hands-on DevOps Engineer to own the reliability, security, and continuous improvement of RazorSync's cloud infrastructure. You will manage a primarily AWS and Windows-based environment, including RDS, EC2, SQL Server, DNS, load balancing, and patching, while collaborating with engineering, QA, and security teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong Windows and SQL Server experience, and a demonstrated ability to automate and optimize deployments in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, or site reliability engineering experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting production AWS environments.
• Deep practical experience with Amazon RDS, EC2, SQS, SNS, Route 53, Application Load Balancers, VPC networking, security groups, and AMI lifecycle management in production environments.
• 5+ years of Windows Server administration experience, including patching, troubleshooting, services, permissions, performance tuning, event logs, and system recovery.
• Strong experience administering Windows Active Directory, Group Policy, domain controllers, DNS, and identity management in enterprise environments.
• 3+ years of experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure, including backups, maintenance, performance troubleshooting, and high-availability considerations.
• Experience supporting high-availability SaaS platforms with responsibility for uptime, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, operating systems, databases, networking, application layers, and cloud services.
• Proven experience with monitoring, alerting, incident response, change management, root cause analysis, and implementation of long-term corrective actions.
• Experience designing and implementing automation solutions using scripting, infrastructure-as-code, or configuration management tools.
• Experience leading production incidents, coordinating cross-functional response efforts, and driving post-incident improvements.
• Experience evaluating, implementing, and maintaining cloud security, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation, operational runbooks, architectural diagrams, and implementation plans.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, security, and business teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritize competing initiatives, make sound technical decisions, and take ownership through resolution.
• Experience mentoring engineers, establishing operational standards, and driving continuous improvement initiatives is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operation, support, and continuous improvement of AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments.
• Administer and troubleshoot Amazon RDS environments supporting Microsoft SQL Server workloads, including availability, connectivity, backups, maintenance, and performance coordination.
• Provision, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Amazon EC2 Windows instances and Windows Server operating systems.
• Manage Windows domain controller services, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS dependencies, access, and general domain health.
• Maintain Windows SQL Server environments in partnership with engineering and database stakeholders.
• Manage AWS AMIs and image lifecycle processes to support consistent, secure server provisioning and recovery.
• Plan, test, execute, and document server patching for Windows servers and related platform components.
• Configure and support Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS integrations used for application messaging and notifications.
• Administer Route 53 DNS records, hosted zones, and routing configurations.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Application Load Balancers, target groups, health checks, certificates, and traffic routing.
• Support secure networking and connectivity across AWS services, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, routing, and private service access.
• Monitor system health, performance, capacity, and availability; identify trends and address risks before they become incidents.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and follow-up validation.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, architecture documentation, recovery procedures, and support guides.
• Partner with software engineers and QA to improve deployment reliability, environment consistency, and release readiness.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce configuration drift.
• Support backup, restore, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and infrastructure security initiatives.
• Assist with cloud cost visibility and responsible resource utilization.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

RDS

EC2

SQS

SNS

Route53

ALB

VPC

Windows Server

Active Directory

Group Policy

DNS

SQL Server

SaaS HA

Monitoring

Incident Response

Change Management

Automation

IaC

Incident Management

Cloud Security

Disaster Recovery

Backup

Documentation

Cross-functional Collaboration

Autonomy

Mentoring

Job description

Contour Software seeks a hands-on DevOps Engineer to own the reliability, security, and continuous improvement of RazorSync's cloud infrastructure. You will manage a primarily AWS and Windows-based environment, including RDS, EC2, SQL Server, DNS, load balancing, and patching, while collaborating with engineering, QA, and security teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong Windows and SQL Server experience, and a demonstrated ability to automate and optimize deployments in a