Senior TechOps & SRE Lead - AWS Cloud Reliability Architect

Zohorecruit; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Jacksonville, Florida seeks an experienced TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer to design scalable AWS infrastructure, drive DevOps practices, and lead the TechOps team across production environments.

This role blends strategic architecture with hands-on delivery, focusing on reliability, security, cost optimization, incident management, and cross‑functional collaboration with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams to ensure 24/7 uptime.

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).

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.
• Implement IAM best practices and least-privilege access controls.
• Manage secrets and key management (AWS KMS, Secrets Manager).
• Conduct vulnerability management and patching.
• Support compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR as applicable).
• Lead disaster recovery planning and backup strategies.
• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps/TechOps/ engineers.
• Establish operational KPIs and performance benchmarks.
• Manage on-call rotations and escalation processes.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams.
• Contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy and cloud roadmap.

Skills

AWS

SRE leadership

DevOps practices

Cloud infrastructure design

Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

EC2

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

IAM

Job description

Zohorecruit in Jacksonville, Florida seeks an experienced TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer to design scalable AWS infrastructure, drive DevOps practices, and lead the TechOps team across production environments.

This role blends strategic architecture with hands-on delivery, focusing on reliability, security, cost optimization, incident management, and cross‑functional collaboration with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams to ensure 24/7 uptime.