

Lead Engineer– Infrastructure Operations
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This role is for a Lead Engineer– Infrastructure Operations, with a contract length of "unknown", offering a pay rate of "unknown". Key skills required include AWS, Fastly CDN management, IaC, and scripting. Experience in eCommerce environments is preferred.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
June 28, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
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📄 - Contract type
Unknown
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Sunnyvale, CA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Bash #Deployment #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #Scripting #Automation #Web Development #Docker #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Terraform #GitHub #Datadog #Python #Monitoring #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #DevOps #Jenkins #Security #EC2 #Documentation #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Scala #WAF (Web Application Firewall) #AWS EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) #API (Application Programming Interface) #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Cloud #Observability
Role description
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About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Engineer with deep experience in eCommerce infrastructure, AWS cloud-native services, and CDN/WAF management, ideally Fastly VCL (Varnish Configuration Language) and NG-WAF. You will play a key role in maintaining, optimizing, and evolving our digital commerce platform to deliver fast, secure, and scalable customer experiences.
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)
• Experienence with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic)
• Understanding of CI/CD processes and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, especially in high-traffic environments
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in a large-scale retail or eCommerce environment
• Node.js experience preferred
• Signal based WAF management preferred (ex: Signal Sciences)
• Knowledge of edge security practices such as WAF configuration, bot protection, or TLS management
• Experience with performance tuning and synthetic monitoring
• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect)