Job Description

Senior Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS) – Hands-on & Mentorship

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Lead DevOps Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for Payments Engineering team. In this role, you will spend your time on high-level technical execution—architecting and implementing robust AWS solutions, mentoring team members, conducting code reviews, and establishing engineering best practices. You will be the go-to expert for complex troubleshooting and architectural decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Hands-on Engineering: Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
Mentorship & Coaching: Lead technical workshops, perform detailed code reviews for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.
CI/CD Excellence: Optimize deployment pipelines to ensure a high Change Success Rate and low Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
Security Integration: Implement Shift Left security practices using AWS IAM and Amazon GuardDuty.
Operational Leadership: Lead the adoption of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) principles, focusing on automation over manual toil.

Required Qualifications

Technical Depth: 8+ years of experience in DevOps, with heavy focus on AWS services (EKS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront).
Mentoring Experience: Proven track record of mentoring junior engineers and improving team-wide technical standards.
Automation Mastery: Expert proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for systems automation.
Containerization: Advanced experience managing production-grade Kubernetes environments via Amazon EKS.
Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional is highly preferred.

About Goldman Sachs

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Principal Manager, Tech (Treasury Tech)

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