about 2 hours ago
Chennai, India
Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design and own cloud infrastructure architectures on AWS using Infrastructure as Code.
- Lead the development of reusable, versioned IaC modules and frameworks.
- Build and maintain infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, and Ansible.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and change management.
- Drive immutable infrastructure and automated environment lifecycle management.
- Define best practices for scalability, availability, security, and cost optimization.
- Review architecture designs and code to ensure high quality and maintainability.
- Enable self-service provisioning for internal teams.
- Design secure, compliant environments following least privilege and defense-in-depth principles.
- Mentor junior software engineers and share expert knowledge across the department.
- Identify opportunities for code refactoring and performance optimizations.
- Advise product management on technical opportunities and constraints.
- Collaborate with architects to promote consistency and advance Appian's technology state.
- Contribute to Appian's long-term documentation with high-quality content.
Requirements
- Deep expertise with AWS services including EC2, Auto Scaling, EKS, ECS, Lambda, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, PrivateLink, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager.
- 15+ years of experience in designing and implementing cloud infrastructure architectures.
- Strong understanding of cost optimization and cloud economics.
- Experience supporting regulated environments (SOC2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, etc.).
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized workloads.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows.
- Proven leadership skills and the ability to mentor and develop engineering talent.
- Excellent communication skills for articulating technical designs to varied audiences.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package supporting health, wellbeing, and financial future.
- Health coverage, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support.
- Life and disability insurance, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), retirement/pension plan.
- Wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, family-forming benefits, and more.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSKubernetesTerraform
Categories
DevOpsSecurity