Lead Engineer Infrastructure Operations

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
No Travel Required
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Electronic Commerce
VCL
Fast CDN
VCL Scripting
WAF management
NG-WAF
New Relic
TLS

Job Details

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure to support high-availability, high-traffic eCommerce applications
  • Manage and configure Fastly CDN services, including writing, testing, and optimizing VCL code for caching, routing, and security use cases
  • Collaborate with developers and site reliability engineers to improve site performance, latency, monitoring, alerting, and uptime
  • Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK
  • Monitor system performance and troubleshoot infrastructure issues across AWS and CDN layers
  • Automate infrastructure operations, deployment workflows, health checks and incident response
  • Support CI/CD pipelines and application rollouts in collaboration with DevOps and engineering teams
  • Maintain security best practices including IAM, network controls, and data protection standards
  • Participate in on-call rotation and incident management for infrastructure-related issues

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience with AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Route 53, etc.)
  • 2+ years of experience configuring and managing Fastly CDN, including custom VCL scripting and Distributed Compute services and/or applicable web development experience
  • Strong knowledge of web caching, HTTP/2, TLS, and CDN optimization techniques
  • Solid scripting and automation experience with Node.js, Bash, Python, or similar languages
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies and certificate management (Docker, ECS, EKS)
  • Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic)
  • Understanding of CI/CD processes and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Code Pipeline)
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, especially in high-traffic environments
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills
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