Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)
Location: Lahore/Karachi/Islamabad
Experience: 4 - 6 years
We are looking for an experienced AWS DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our Managed Services team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for supporting, optimizing, and enhancing our customers’ AWS environments with a strong focus on ECS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code AWS CDK, and AWS monitoring/operations.
Key Responsibilities- Manage, operate, and troubleshoot AWS ECS workloads, containerized applications, task deployments, service scaling, and health monitoring.
- Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, including integration with CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and other supporting services.
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK, ensuring best practices for IaC, security, and scalability.
- Participate in day-to-day operational support as part of the AWS Managed Services function, ensuring high availability and reliability of customer workloads.
- Implement and support AWS monitoring & alerting stacks such as:
- Amazon CloudWatch (logs, metrics, alarms, dashboards)
- AWS SNS / EventBridge for notifications
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend improvements.
- Participate in on-call rotation (if applicable) and ensure timely resolution of platform incidents.
- Work closely with development teams to ensure smooth deployments and platform stability.
- Optional: Support and deploy lightweight web applications on Netlify where required.
Required Skills & Experience
- 4–6 years of experience in AWS DevOps, Cloud Operations, or Platform Engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with Amazon ECS (services, tasks, ALB/NLB, autoscaling, service mesh optional).
- Solid experience with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
- Proficiency in AWS CDK for IaC.
- Good understanding of logging, monitoring, and alerting across AWS platforms.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC, subnets, security groups, load balancers).
- Ability to troubleshoot containerized applications and pipeline failures.
- Experience with IAM policies, roles, and security best practices.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with Netlify for managed frontend deployments.
- Familiarity with container image optimization and ECR.
- Experience with operational playbooks/runbooks in a managed services context.
Soft Skills
- Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
- Ability to work proactively in a fast-paced managed services environment.
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical thinking.
- Ownership mindset with a focus on reliability and continuous improvement.
Top Skills
What We Do
NorthBay is an AWS Premier Partner focused on Database & Application migrations, data & analytics, DevOps & DataOps, application modernization and ML/Ai.
Our practice areas include big data and analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and database migrations.
