Our brand, Lennor Metier Consulting, a DOLE-licensed headhunting and recruitment agency in the Philippines, is proud to partner with a global tech company in their search for a Remote Senior AWS DevOps Engineer based in the Philippines

Salary: Open Salary

Work Setup: WFH

Shift Schedule: Night Shift

The Role

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. This role will be responsible for the reliability, security, scalability, and performance of our AWS environment and will work closely with US-based leadership and globally distributed engineering teams.

You will take end-to-end ownership of production infrastructure, establish best practices, and help mature our DevOps processes as the platform scales.

Your Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

Own the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of highly available and scalable AWS infrastructure
Manage and optimize:
EC2 (autoscaling groups, AMIs, lifecycle management)
RDS (backups, performance tuning, replication, upgrades)
Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)
VPC, subnets, security groups, and routing
Drive capacity planning and cost-effective scaling strategies

Security & Reliability

Own the cloud security posture, including:

IAM roles and least-privilege access
Network security and intrusion detection
Security monitoring and alerting

Implement and maintain:

Intrusion detection and threat monitoring
Patch management and vulnerability remediation

Ensure high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies

Monitoring, Observability & Operations

Design and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting:
CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms)
Third-party observability tools as appropriate
Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
Continuously improve system reliability and operational maturity

Automation & CI/CD

Build and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)
Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Establish best practices for safe deployments, rollbacks, and environment consistency

Collaboration & Leadership

Serve as the primary owner of DevOps and cloud infrastructure
Partner with engineering leadership, backend, frontend, and QA teams
Provide guidance on architecture, scalability, security, and operational best practices

What We're Looking For

Must possess at least 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles
Proven experience operating production AWS environments
Strong background in system reliability, security, and performance
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Must have deep hands-on experience with:

EC2, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing
Autoscaling, performance tuning, and cost optimization
VPC networking and security
Monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
Intrusion detection and security best practices
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred)
Linux systems administration
Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages

Experience supporting Ruby on Rails and/or Java applications
Experience deploying React-based frontends
Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams
FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional Certification is a plus
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate Certification is a plus
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Certification is a plus
AWS Certified Security – Specialty Certification is a plus

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - WFH