Lead DevOps Engineer
We are seeking a seasoned Lead DevOps Engineer to become part of our team.
You will take ownership of the automation foundation of the cloud platform by establishing standards for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and environment provisioning. This position turns manual operations into self-service experiences, allowing teams to deliver in a safe and reliable manner.
Responsibilities
- Shape and advance the company's Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach, covering reusable Terraform modules, account provisioning, and environment templates
- Architect, construct, and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, platform services, and reference application patterns
- Set standards for branching, promotions, secret handling, configuration drift detection, and environment parity
- Build self-service tooling that turns requests and tickets into curated IaC pull requests featuring human approval checkpoints
- Embed compliance, security, and quality checks directly into pipelines to apply guardrails by default
- Work with teams to onboard workloads onto standardized automation patterns and address pipeline-related challenges
- Cooperate with FinOps to incorporate cost guardrails and policy-as-code into deployment processes
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience
- At least one year of experience leading and overseeing development teams
- Solid DevOps and automation foundation with deep proficiency in Terraform or comparable IaC technologies
- Practical knowledge of pipeline tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar platforms
- Demonstrated background designing and maintaining multi-account and multi-environment IaC frameworks and landing zones
- Thorough grasp of branching strategies, promotion workflows, secrets management, and configuration governance
- Acquaintance with automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates embedded within CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of agentic automation patterns and the capability to safely enhance workflows with AI-driven assistants
- Hands-on involvement with AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) practices and toolsets
- Real-world experience with Amazon DevOps Guru for monitoring and elevating operational performance
- Cooperative mindset suited for partnering with platform, security, and QA teams to embed controls and guardrails
- Outstanding spoken and written English communication skills (B2+ level or higher)
