NorthBay Solutions

Senior AWS DevOps / Platform Engineer

Devops - Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan - Full Time

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)
Location: Karachi (Hybrid)
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.

 
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