Lead DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, provision, and manage all product environments, including database tiers, utilizing infrastructure as code.

• Take ownership of and enhance existing CI/CD pipelines while creating new pipelines for green-field projects spanning commit-to-production environments.

• Assign pipeline tasks as the team expands.

• Oversee database operations encompassing backup/recovery, availability, capacity, and patching.

• Develop automation for compliance reporting and infrastructure-layer access controls, ensuring least privilege, break-glass access, safe analyst read paths, and audit support.

• Establish CloudWatch observability to empower service-owning teams in troubleshooting their systems.

• Coordinate releases and ensure environment readiness across both internal and external vendor development teams.

• Define documentation standards for runbooks and infrastructure documentation, while automating documentation upkeep.

• Guide and mentor engineers, acting as the senior escalation point for production incidents.

• Collaborate with application engineers to gather requirements and address environment and data constraints from the outset.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform roles.

• More than 2 years of experience leading the efforts of other engineers.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS.

• Significant hands-on experience with Terraform or a similar infrastructure as code tool.

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD processes.

• Familiarity with containers on ECS/Fargate and ECR, or comparable container orchestration experience.

• Working knowledge of relational database operations, including backup/recovery, availability, and capacity management.

• Experience with SQL Server, Postgres, or equivalent managed databases.

• Practical compliance experience, such as SOC 2 or similar, within a regulated industry.

• Sound judgment in regulated industries.

• Experience in the legal industry is a plus, though not a requirement.

• Deep DBA specialization is not a necessity.

• Data modeling or data warehouse experience is not required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.

• Life insurance (Voluntary Term and Whole Life).

• Voluntary Long Term Disability.

• Paid time off.

• Paid holidays.

• 401(k).

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Maternity Leave.