Were looking for a hands-on Devops Team Lead to build, manage, and scale a high-impact DevOps team. Youll lead infrastructure strategy, promote DevOps excellence, and drive automation and platform reliability across the organization. This role combines technical leadership with team development and operational ownership.
Your Responsibilities & Impact:
Lead and mentor a team of 5 DevOps engineers.
Own the impact of our infrastructure on success by providing engineering autonomy.
Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.
Grow and structure the team to support expanding infrastructure and business needs.
Infrastructure & Platform Ownership:
Own and evolve scalable, secure, and observable cloud architecture (with a focus on AWS).
Leverage Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and GitOps to maintain reproducible infrastructure.
Proactively identify needs that align with the product and business goals.
Take the lead on production issues, ensuring availability and timely response.
Improve CI/CD processes, developer experience, and automation pipelines.
Lead strategic projects to modernize infrastructure, adopt new technologies, and improve stability.
Proactively drive retrospectives, platform upgrades, and systemic reliability improvements.
Monitor infrastructure health, optimize cloud costs, and track infrastructure KPIs.
Deeply understand system complexity and internal service dependencies.
Partner with Security to maintain compliance (SOC 2, access control, audits).
Hands-On Execution - Actively contribute to the design and implementation.
Requirements: At least 2 years in a DevOps leadership position and over 5 years of hands-on DevOps experience.
Deep knowledge of AWS and infrastructure best practices.
Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
Scripting skills (Python/Go/Bash) and a strong automation mindset.
Track record of improving systems proactively and reactively.
Experience leading technical teams in complex, distributed environments.
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus).
Solid understanding of security principles, cloud networking, and compliance (SOC 2).
Strong communication and leadership skills; ability to mentor, motivate, and develop others.
This position is open to all candidates.