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Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer Job

The Role:

As our Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, you’ll take technical ownership of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. This role blends deep hands-on engineering with functional leadership. You’ll design resilient systems, scale infrastructure, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, platform, and security teams.

This is a senior individual contributor role—not a management position—ideal for someone who wants to shape technical direction, lead by example, and remain deeply technical.

Responsibilities:

• Set technical direction for infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and automation within the DevOps function.
• Architect and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and related tooling.
• Own and improve CI/CD workflows, enabling fast and reliable deployments across teams.
• Mentor and support DevOps engineers, fostering autonomy, quality, and professional growth.
• Define and track operational metrics, including deployment success rate, infrastructure cost, scaling efficiency, and recovery time.
• Drive incident readiness and response, ensuring strong observability and alerting across systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align infrastructure goals with broader product and platform objectives.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering, with 2+ years leading technically (as a tech lead, principal, or architect).
• Deep experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred).
• Proficient with Kubernetes and deployment tooling such as Helm.
• You know CI/CD inside and out—GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, whatever gets the job done.
• You can script in Python, Bash, or something similar.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, or ELK/OpenSearch.
• Strong understanding of cloud security practices: IAM, encryption, secure network design, compliance.
• Proven ability to mentor, lead technical initiatives, and drive strategic outcomes.
• Solid understanding of systems performance and reliability, with experience improving deployment reliability and infrastructure scalability.
• Comfortable working in a polyglot environment (e.g., Scala, C#, Python).
• You’ve got strong opinions on infrastructure—and the humility to evolve them.
• You care about security, performance, and doing things the right way.
• You’re collaborative, curious, and not afraid to get in the weeds.

Bonus Skills and Qualifications:

• You’ve worked with Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB, or OpenSearch.
• You’ve designed for multi-region, high-availability environments.
• You’ve played with service mesh tools like Istio.
• AWS certifications? Cool, but not required.

How to Apply

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