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Posted Jun 6, 2026

Senior TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer (AWS Cloud)

Contract to Hire | Simple Solutions | United States Posted On 04/23/2026 Job Information Manufacturing Job Opening ID ZR_2897_JOB Work Experience 10+ Years $90-$105/hr City Jacksonville State/Province Florida 32084 Job Description Department: Technology / Engineering Role Overview We are seeking a highly experienced TechOps & SRE Lead Engineer with deep expertise in Cloud to 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. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. • 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