Senior TechOps & SRE Lead - AWS Cloud Reliability

Zohorecruit; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking an experienced TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer in Jacksonville, USA. You will design scalable cloud architectures, drive DevOps practices, and lead the TechOps team to ensure reliability and operational excellence.

This role combines strategic planning with hands-on implementation, managing AWS services, security, cost optimization, and incident response while collaborating with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• 10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure roles.
• 5+ years leading SRE technical teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda).
• Deep knowledge of networking, Linux systems, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Strong architectural thinking
• Hands-on technical leadership
• Crisis and incident management
• Strategic planning and execution
• Excellent cross-functional communication

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
• Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations.
• Implement VPC architecture, IAM policies, networking, and security best practices.
• Oversee EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and related AWS services.
• Optimize AWS cost management and resource utilization.
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Manage monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems.
• Ensure 24/7 uptime and operational resilience.

Skills

AWS

SRE leadership

DevOps

Automation

Monitoring

Security IAM

Cost optimization

Networking

Terraform

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Grafana

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Job description

Zohorecruit is seeking an experienced TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer in Jacksonville, USA. You will design scalable cloud architectures, drive DevOps practices, and lead the TechOps team to ensure reliability and operational excellence.

This role combines strategic planning with hands-on implementation, managing AWS services, security, cost optimization, and incident response while collaborating with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams.