Lead DevOps Engineer

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of our DevOps processes and infrastructure. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers, collaborating closely with Application developers, Data engineers, SRE, Security and IT professionals to automate and streamline our operations and processes. You will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems and applications.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise; Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes; Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency; Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness; Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications; Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications; Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability; Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies; Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations; Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in a DevOps role, with 2 years in a leadership position; Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent); Expert level knowledge of Linux; Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling; Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents; Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting; Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls; Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent); Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures; Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent; Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent; Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams

Nice to have

Experience with AWS

Benefits

competitive health benefits; matched 401k and pension plans; PTO; generous parental leave; gym subsidies; educational reimbursements for career development; recognition programs; annual year-end performance bonus