Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS Platform Owner for ECS & Lambda

DPL; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

DPL is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the AWS platform behind our .NET and React products, from infrastructure as code to production reliability. You will work across frontend, backend, QA and infrastructure tracks. The platform runs .NET services on ECS behind ALB and API Gateway, with Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora MySQL, Cognito and CloudWatch.

You will set the standards for how we build, ship, secure and run it, collaborating with teams to ensure resilience and scalable growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or cloud infrastructure.
• 3+ years running production workloads on AWS.
• Deep hands-on experience with ECS, ALB, API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora MySQL, Cognito, CloudWatch, IAM and VPC networking.
• Strong Terraform or AWS CDK skills, including module design and remote state management.
• Docker expertise: multi-stage builds, image optimisation, ECR and image scanning.
• Built and owned CI/CD pipelines for at least one of .NET, Node.js/React or serverless workloads.
• Scripting in Bash plus one of Python, PowerShell or C#.
• Solid Linux administration and networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing, security groups).
• Production on-call experience: incident handling, root cause analysis and post-mortems.
• Working knowledge of AWS security services and least-privilege IAM design.
• Git workflows (trunk-based or GitFlow), pull-request reviews and branch protection.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the AWS platform end to end: provisioning, deployment, observability, security and cost management.
• Design, build and maintain AWS environments across dev, QA, staging and production accounts.
• Run containerised .NET 8 workloads on ECS (Fargate and EC2) fronted by ALB and API Gateway.
• Support serverless components: Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions and DynamoDB.
• Define infrastructure as code using Terraform or AWS CDK; avoid manual changes.
• Build reusable modules and enforce code review on infrastructure changes.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for various tech stacks; enable blue/green and canary deployments.
• Set up logging, metrics, tracing, alerting with CloudWatch, X-Ray; define SLOs and incident response.

Skills

AWS experience

CI/CD

Linux admin

SRE mindset

Platform ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Docker

ECR

Job description

DPL is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the AWS platform behind our .NET and React products, from infrastructure as code to production reliability. You will work across frontend, backend, QA and infrastructure tracks. The platform runs .NET services on ECS behind ALB and API Gateway, with Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora MySQL, Cognito and CloudWatch.

You will set the standards for how we build, ship, secure and run it, collaborating with teams to ensure resilience and scalable growth.