Team Lead – Cloud Engineering DevSecOps

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

📋 Description

• Oversee a delivery and engineering team that supports AAIS's cross-functional cloud engineering divisions in both application and data engineering.

• Manage work intake, technical planning, prioritization, estimation, sequencing, and tracking of delivery.

• Convert technology and business priorities into engineering results, release schedules, and accountable execution.

• Identify delivery risks and resource limitations, resolve obstacles, and escalate decisions when necessary.

• Direct architectural and engineering choices across data, applications, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, security, identity, endpoints, and SaaS platforms.

• Set standards for source control, testing, CI/CD, security, observability, documentation, and change management.

• Lead efforts in production readiness, incident escalation, root cause analysis, and enhancements in reliability.

• Coordinate with engineers, technology partners, vendors, and leadership concerning priorities, trade-offs, risks, and outcomes.

• Ensure that work is logged in Azure DevOps, code is managed in GitHub, and peer reviews are consistently conducted.

• Utilize AWS-native, Microsoft 365 Security, and Okta Identity functionalities.

• Relay delivery status, risks, and suggestions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and leadership.

• Coach and mentor engineers, provide constructive feedback, and create opportunities for technical development.

• Foster a collaborative engineering culture that emphasizes accountability, knowledge sharing, and cross-coverage.

• Establish goals, monitor progress, conduct team meetings and one-on-ones, and manage performance discussions.

• Oversee daily operations, resource planning, distribution of workload, and prioritization of tasks.

• Collaborate with Human Resources on hiring, onboarding, development, employee relations, and performance management.

• Ensure adherence to company policies, procedures, and quality standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 8 years of technology experience, including senior engineering or technical leadership roles.

• Proven experience in leading cross-functional engineering delivery and production operations.

• Demonstrated breadth across multiple cloud engineering areas and depth in at least one.

• Extensive technical knowledge of AWS cloud data platforms, application engineering, DevSecOps, cloud security, identity management, infrastructure, and production operations.

• Experience in supporting teams that utilize AWS cloud-native functionalities, MongoDB, Databricks, Power BI, and other enterprise platforms.

• Familiarity with enterprise security platforms, including Okta, Microsoft 365, Cisco, and CrowdStrike.

• Practical experience with AWS-native security and operational tools, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security, CloudFormation, and Azure DevOps.

• Strong leadership abilities in delivery, including prioritization, estimation, risk management, and incident leadership.

• Capability to guide architectural decisions and technical trade-offs while mentoring engineers and challenging designs.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving capabilities.

• High level of integrity, ethics, discretion, and commitment to the organization’s mission.

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.

• Proficient in effective communication across various channels and asynchronously in a remote-first work setting.

• Successful completion of an in-person leadership interview.

• Formal experience in people management is a plus.

• Experience in property and casualty insurance or other regulated sectors is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• 10% annual bonus.

• Minimal travel required for annual all-company gatherings or team design sessions (up to 5% of the time).

• Fully remote / remote-first working environment.