Lead Devops Engineer
Lead Devops Engineer
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Job Description
As a Lead DevOps Engineer youll play a pivotal role in defining and maintaining robust system architectures mentoring engineers and ensuring our solutions for government clients are secure scalable and compliant.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Lead DevOps Engineer you will:
Define and maintain scalable system architectures leveraging AWS (preferred) or any major cloud provider (GCP/Azure)(with an emphasis on CloudFormation or equivalent Infrastructure as a Code technology) container orchestration (Docker Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) serverless (Lambda ECS App service cloud run) compute (EC2 virtual machines) etc.)
Collaborate with the Engineering Managerto align DevOps priorities and practices with business and product goals.
Write and review production-grade Python code for automation tooling and backend services applying best practices and a strong appreciation for static typing.
Oversee CI/CD pipelinesensuring security compliance and reliable deployments in AWS GovCloud or other AWS environments.
Guide and mentor engineers at all levels providing code reviews and technical coaching to foster growth and excellence across the team.
Champion DevOps methodologieswithin the team driving a culture of collaboration continuous improvement and proactive problem-solving.
Lead and participate in incident response and root cause analysis ensuring lessons learned are incorporated into process and tooling improvements.
About You
Youre a fit for the role of Lead DevOps Engineer if your background includes:
6 years in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering or a related discipline with a proven track record leading complex cloud and container-based projects in enterprise or regulated environments.
Demonstrated technical leadership and experience mentoring engineersinfluencing technical direction and establishing best practices.
Deep understanding of AWS (preferred) or any major cloud provider (GCP/Azure)(with an emphasis on CloudFormation or equivalent Infrastructure as a Code technology) container orchestration (Docker Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) serverless (Lambda ECS App service cloud run) compute (EC2 virtual machines) etc.)
Strong Python development skills specifically for production-grade services or infrastructure tooling and familiarity with typed Python or static typing principles.
Extensive knowledge of cloud design patterns for scalability data management resiliency and disaster recoveryincluding event-driven architectures and distributed tracing.
Comprehensive understanding of cloud and application security with hands-on experience implementing encryption identity and access management secrets management and security automation in compliance with government regulations.
Extensive experience architecting and supporting enterprise-scale continuous delivery environments leveraging advanced CI/CD automation blue/green and canary deployments and automated rollback mechanisms.
Hands-on experience with APM and observability toolssuch as Datadog CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana and Kibana for real-time monitoring and diagnostics.
Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and proactive leadership thriving in a distributed remote-first team environment.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills able to work effectively across cross-functional distributed teams and translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.
Employment Type
Full Time
