Lead Engineer – AWS Infrastructure

Yularatech

Bengaluru • Not disclosed

Yesterday

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Role Overview We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Lead Engineer – AWS Infrastructure to design, scale, and operate production-grade systems on AWS. This is an infrastructure-heavy leadership role: • 75% AWS Infrastructure / DevOps / Distributed Systems • 25% Backend Engineering / Full-Stack Development (Node.js, TypeScript, React, Next.js, NestJS) For candidates with 10 years of total experience, at least the last 3-4 years must have heavily involved owning and operating production-scale cloud infrastructure on AWS, along with building and maintaining scalable backend services/APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS, with the ability to contribute to frontend applications (React / Next.js) when required. This role requires strong system design capabilities and proven experience handling high-traffic, complex applications at scale - across both infrastructure and application layers. Key Responsibilities • Architect and scale cloud-native systems on AWS • Design highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure • Handle traffic spikes, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure failures • Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes • Design scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript • Contribute to frontend development when required (React/Next.js) • Debug production incidents across infrastructure, networking, and database layers • Lead infrastructure decisions aligned with scalability, security, and performance best practices Mandatory AWS Infrastructure Expertise Candidates must have strong, recent hands-on production experience with: • Amazon EKS (Kubernetes in production environments) • Docker (containerization, image optimization, orchestration) • Amazon API Gateway • Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) • Amazon VPC (subnets, route tables, NAT, security groups) • Amazon RDS (Multi-AZ, read replicas, performance tuning) • Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, and traffic routing • Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent) • Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK (preferred), CloudFormation, or Terraform Scalability & High-Performance Requirements ...