Lead AWS Engineer
Huron Consulting Group5 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end incident triage, troubleshooting, resolution, and on-call response for AWS platform incidents.
- Design and implement reliability improvements through automation, monitoring, observability, and architectural optimization.
- Build Python and PowerShell automation to eliminate manual work and enable self-healing workflows.
- Troubleshoot, scale, and optimize ECS container workloads, including networking and performance tuning.
- Manage AWS Systems Manager fleet operations, patching, remote execution, and automation.
- Govern S3 storage through lifecycle policies, encryption, access controls, and data protection standards.
- Design and operationalize AWS Bedrock GenAI use cases with prompt workflows, guardrails, secure access, and monitoring.
- Enforce IAM least-privilege practices, credential hygiene, access reviews, and broader AWS security controls.
- Improve logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and operational dashboards.
- Lead change management, release governance, post-incident reviews, documentation, and continuous platform improvement.
- Collaborate with US-based and distributed global stakeholders during overlapping business hours.
- Mentor junior engineers, review solutions, and promote platform engineering best practices.
Requirements
- 6–8 years of experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering with strong AWS exposure.
- Hands-on troubleshooting experience with EC2, S3, SSM, IAM, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, SCPs, SSO, VPC, RDS, and AWS AI Services.
- Mandatory experience implementing, operating, or integrating AWS Bedrock and GenAI use cases.
- Strong automation experience with Python and Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Understanding of IAM, security best practices, and cloud governance.
- Experience with CloudWatch or equivalent logging and monitoring platforms.
- Strong collaboration skills for working with distributed and global teams.
Benefits
- The role is based in India and requires collaboration with US-based stakeholders during overlapping US office hours.
- Participation in on-call rotations for P1/P2 incidents is required.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm that provides strategy, operations, digital, and technology consulting to healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial organizations. Revenue comes from advisory and implementation engagements, including cloud transformations on platforms such as Workday, Salesforce, and Oracle, and software like the Huron Research Suite for universities. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on NASDAQ.