Job Description

Lead AWS Infra DevOps Engineer
Job ID: 81267
Location: Toronto, Canada (Onsite)
Duration: Long Term Contract (Initial 6-Month, into 6-Month Rolling Extensions)
Client: Virtusa
Pay Rate: Up to $55/hr. Incorporated Consultant
Job description:
The Lead AWS Infra DevOps Engineer is a senior technical role responsible for architecting, developing, and managing cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, with a strong focus on the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The individual will lead a team of DevOps engineers to automate and streamline infrastructure provisioning, ensure robust CI/CD pipelines, enforce security and compliance standards, and drive cloud adoption best practices across the organization.
This role involves close collaboration with development, operations, security, and architecture teams to enable rapid and reliable delivery of cloud-native applications. As a hands-on leader, the engineer will guide the implementation of scalable, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant solutions on AWS, while mentoring team members in modern DevOps practices and tools.
Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of AWS infrastructure solutions for both database and application migrations, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and perform optimally.
• Architect and manage complex cloud networking solutions, including the setup and optimization of VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and VPC endpoints for AWS RDS, Aurora, and ECS environments.
• Design, implement, and enforce security policies across AWS cloud environments to ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., encryption, IAM roles, security groups, key management, vulnerability assessments).
• Leverage AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes, enabling Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure, implementing solutions like AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, and other monitoring tools to track performance, availability, and scalability across ECS, RDS, Aurora, and related AWS components.
• Lead, mentor, and collaborate with a team of DevOps engineers, promoting a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence.
• Work closely with development and database teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth deployment of both database migrations to RDS/Aurora and application migrations to ECS.
• Lead the troubleshooting efforts for infrastructure-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid resolution of performance bottlenecks, and cloud resource disruptions.
• Implement proactive measures to optimize resource utilization in both ECS clusters and RDS/Aurora instances, using cost management, auto-scaling, and performance tuning strategies.
• Ensure that infrastructure adheres to industry regulations and best practices, including cloud security controls (e.g., encryption in transit, key management, and access policies) and audit requirements.