ZR_2857_JOB

Zohorecruit; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Jacksonville, FL seeks a Senior TechOps & SRE Lead to architect and run secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. You will lead the TechOps team, design multi-account AWS environments, and implement best practices for reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

This role combines strategic planning with hands-on execution, focusing on SRE discipline, incident response, disaster recovery, and collaboration with Engineering, Product, Security, and Data teams to drive operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 12-15+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE or Infrastructure.
• 5+ years leading SRE technical teams.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage secure, scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations.
• Implement VPC, IAM, networking, and security best practices.
• Oversee EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront and related services.
• Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and incident response.
• Define SLIs, SLOs and error budgets; manage monitoring (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Mentor TechOps and DevOps engineers; drive security/compliance initiatives.

Skills

AWS

SRE

DevOps

Cloud architecture

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Python scripting

Incident management

Leadership

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Job description

Jacksonville, United States | Posted on 03/13/2026

Department:Technology / Engineering

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior TechOps & SRE Lead Engineerwith deep expertise inCloudto lead our cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, reliability engineering, and operational excellence initiatives. This role is both strategic and hands-on — responsible for designing scalable architectures, improving automation, ensuring system reliability, and leading the TechOps team.

Key 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.

Site Reliability & Production Operations

• 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.

Security & Compliance

• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• minimum 12-15+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE and/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
  

Success Metrics

• Reduced deployment lead time
  
• Reduced incident frequency and MTTR
  
• Improved cost efficiency
  
• High-performing and scalable TechOps function