DevOps Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, execution, and continuous management of scalable AWS cloud infrastructure along with intricate technical projects.

• Mentor engineers to ensure successful project delivery while providing leadership in areas such as performance management, goal setting, feedback, career development, and involvement in hiring processes.

• Develop and maintain Bitbucket Pipelines for CI/CD, utilize Terraform for infrastructure as code, and enhance internal platform tools.

• Carry out complex production deployments and enhance deployment safety through automation, verification, and rollback strategies.

• Define the team's technical implementation strategy and establish a roadmap for continuous improvement.

• Propel enterprise ecosystem enhancements through direct technical leadership.

• Implement and refine the team’s production ownership model.

• Achieve team objectives while aligning with organizational operational goals.

• Engage with leadership and cross-functional teams; create and present technical documentation and guidance.

• Uphold enterprise standards, best practices in security, compliance, environment management, and processes for change and incident/PIR.

• Design, construct, and enhance shared engineering platforms, automation, IaC, CI/CD, developer tools, and self-service capabilities.

• Assess and advocate for AI-driven engineering and operational automation to boost productivity, deployment quality, incident response, and platform operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in DevOps.

• More than 7 years in a DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering position.

• Proven track record of leading engineers, managing technical delivery, and handling complex cross-functional technical projects.

• Solid experience with AWS services and cloud migration initiatives.

• Extensive knowledge of CI/CD tools and modern pipeline automation; experience with Bitbucket Pipelines is preferred.

• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code.

• Strong familiarity with Atlassian products, including JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

• Comprehensive understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience in leading incident response, ensuring production reliability, mentoring engineers, and establishing technical standards for the team.

• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical capabilities.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to produce clear documentation and convey technical direction effectively.

• Good organizational judgment with an awareness of cross-team impacts.

• Capability to lead unfamiliar or ambiguous technical projects with minimal oversight.

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is mandatory.

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional is preferred.

• AWS Certified Security Specialty is optional.

• AWS CloudOps Administrator Associate certification is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Employer-Paid Vision

• Employer-Paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance

• Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance

• 401(k) Plan with company match

• PTO and sick time accrued each pay period

• Annual Bonus Program

• Health Savings Accounts

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health, Dependent Care, and Transit

• Vision Care

• Life and AD&D coverages