Lead DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Build and nurture a team focused on infrastructure engineering, set technical expectations, mentor engineers, and develop repeatable delivery processes.

• Design, provision, and sustain secure, scalable AWS account structures, landing zones, networking foundations, access controls, and provisioning workflows.

• Provision, configure, and maintain infrastructure that supports customer deployments across both new and existing AWS accounts.

• Create reusable Terraform modules, infrastructure templates, deployment patterns, and engineering standards.

• Evaluate DevOps practices, infrastructure management, operational procedures, and workflows; minimize technical debt and implement enhancements.

• Strengthen cloud security posture through hardening measures, least-privilege access, IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and secure configurations.

• Facilitate the migration and modernization of production workloads from legacy hosted infrastructure to AWS.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to connectivity, routing, DNS, firewall, VPN, load balancing, security groups, and hybrid networking.

• Review undocumented environments, identify dependencies and blockers, and formulate migration plans and technical workstreams.

• Design, build, troubleshoot, secure, and enhance production AWS environments utilizing infrastructure as code.

• Modernize outdated infrastructure and operating systems.

• Implement and enhance CI/CD, monitoring, observability, secrets management, configuration management, and deployment automation.

• Design and execute AWS disaster recovery capabilities, replication dependencies, recovery procedures, and operational runbooks.

• Set standards for monitoring, deployment validation, change management, incident response, production support, and reliability.

• Assist with migration rehearsals, rollback planning, production cutovers, validation, and post-migration stabilization.

• Define and execute technical deliverables, highlight risks, and drive issues to resolution.

• Create architecture documentation, infrastructure standards, migration plans, operational runbooks, dependency maps, and knowledge-transfer materials.

• Offer senior technical guidance and direction to customer engineers and EverOps team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields.

• Extensive experience with production AWS environments.

• In-depth hands-on experience in designing, operating, securing, troubleshooting, and enhancing production AWS workloads and infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, subnetting, DNS, NAT, firewalls, VPNs, proxies, load balancers, security groups, network ACLs, and AWS networking services.

• Production experience with VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints, VPN connectivity, and multi-account or hybrid-network environments.

• Proficiency in designing and managing multi-account AWS environments, such as AWS Organizations, account provisioning, cross-account access, centralized networking, and security governance.

• Experience in building and maintaining infrastructure platforms that support repeatable application and customer deployments across various environments.

• Proven experience in providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, establishing engineering standards, and coordinating infrastructure delivery.

• Ability to define reusable infrastructure patterns, automate environment provisioning, and implement secure, scalable deployment practices.

• Demonstrated experience in advancing DevOps maturity, infrastructure standardization, deployment practices, operational readiness, change management, incident response, and production reliability.

• Strong grasp of AWS security best practices, IAM, least-privilege access, network security, encryption, secrets management, infrastructure hardening, and secure configuration management.

• Experience in supporting production cloud migrations and modernization efforts.

• Advanced proficiency with Terraform and version-controlled infrastructure as code.

• Solid Linux systems administration, security hardening, and troubleshooting capabilities.

• Production experience with Docker and ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with designing, securing, and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar tools.

• Experience with monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational visibility using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent solutions.

• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages.

• Experience supporting mission-critical production environments.

• Ability to independently evaluate unfamiliar environments, prioritize tasks, define a clear path forward, and execute with minimal supervision.

• Capacity to communicate technical risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and recommendations to stakeholders.

• A LinkedIn profile is necessary for application review.

• Must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

• Additional qualifications considered advantageous include experience in fintech/payments, compliance frameworks, AWS security services, maturity assessments, team building, migration leadership, disaster recovery, database infrastructure, GitOps, platform engineering, FinOps, AI-assisted engineering, and advanced certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% Remote Workplace: We've been remote since Day 1!

• Unlimited Paid Time Off.

• Equity: Become a true owner of the company.

• 401K with company contribution.

• Sponsored healthcare.

• Access to training and certification programs.