- Job type
- Not listed
- Work mode
- Remote
- Level
- Lead
- Department
- Information Technology
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Posted
- Sep 17, 2026
About the role
Role
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. Experience with AWS is a plus.
- 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.
The salary range estimate for this position is $175,000-$225,000 plus an annual bonus.