Lead DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Lead, guide, and develop a team of DevOps engineers.

• Establish technical direction, facilitate sprint planning, and drive progress toward quarterly objectives.

• Design, implement, and sustain scalable, secure production infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code methodologies.

• Take ownership of and enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment standards, and security checks across engineering teams.

• Oversee migrations from legacy systems to modern managed platforms and retire outdated infrastructure.

• Drive efforts in monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and on-call routing for various services.

• Manage networking and access controls, ensuring secure, documented, and least-privilege access.

• Integrate security throughout the DevOps lifecycle via vulnerability scanning, code and infrastructure assessments, and remediation processes.

• Implement FinOps practices, optimize cloud expenditures, right-size workloads, and report financial metrics to leadership.

• Act as the primary point of escalation for infrastructure incidents and lead post-incident reviews.

• Ensure infrastructure complies with healthcare regulatory and compliance standards.

• Collaborate with engineering, security, and data teams to create reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including mentoring or leading fellow engineers.

• Extensive hands-on experience in building and managing large-scale cloud infrastructure, encompassing compute, networking, storage, identity, and access management.

• Proven track record in constructing and maintaining automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.

• Knowledge of security practices and compliance frameworks, including vulnerability scanning, cloud security posture management, and audit logging.

• Experience in setting up and overseeing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure production reliability.

• Proficient in coding with at least one scripting or systems language and managing infrastructure through code.

• Excellent communication skills to transition between in-depth technical tasks, team leadership, and conveying infrastructure decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

• Bonus: experience in a regulated sector, particularly healthcare.

• Bonus: familiarity with container orchestration.

• Bonus: experience with AI-driven automation for infrastructure.

• Bonus: cloud platform certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote position with approximately 5% travel required.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, along with an Employee Assistance Program.

• 401K retirement plan with company matching.

• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.

• Flex Time Off plus company holidays.

• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Pet insurance.

• Bonus included in the total benefits package.