AWS Cloud Technical Leader

Location: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Company

hirify.global is an international consulting group specializing in innovation and business transformation through technology, with over 7,200 consultants in 21 countries. Its expertise covers data and technologies, cloud and application services, management and innovation consulting, and sectors including transport and logistics, financial services, energy and utilities, retail, and media and telecommunications.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for the development, enhancement, implementation, and evolution of solutions in AWS environments.
• Guide Development, Infrastructure, and Support teams in engineering, security, quality, performance, and DevOps best practices.
• Define technical solutions, support technology decisions, and ensure integration between applications, AWS services, and corporate systems.
• Oversee the full application lifecycle, including development, deployment, maintenance, releases, and production changes.
• Lead reviews of solutions, code, infrastructure, and deployments while identifying technical risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate complex incident resolution, provide L3 support when required, and maintain technical documentation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technical leadership positions within Cloud Engineering or similar roles.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and coordinating cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience developing, deploying, and operating applications in AWS environments, including AWS Cloud services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, or equivalent services.
• Experience with distributed architectures and highly available production environments, including distributed applications, microservices, REST APIs, distributed services, integration patterns, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent tools, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of AWS networking and security, plus experience managing environments, releases, and production changes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.
• English at C1 level is required in spoken and written communication to lead technical sessions, coordinate international teams, and collaborate with technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Advanced experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with DevOps platforms and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of observability, Site Reliability Engineering, vulnerability management, Agile, DevOps, and DevSecOps methodologies.
• AWS certifications such as Developer, SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer Professional, or similar.
• Experience in regulated environments, banking, or financial markets.
• Experience with application modernisation and migrations to AWS.

Culture & Benefits

• Long-term employment contract.
• Training and career development opportunities.
• Opportunity to join a multicultural team and work on international projects.