Lead DevOps Engineer

Position Description

We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to spearhead the evolution of cloud infrastructure for our data product Datapipes. You will lead a talented team of DevOps engineers driving the strategy for our scalable secure and highly available Enterprise SaaS platform. Your deep expertise in Kubernetes and AWS will be critical in architecting a robust foundation for our rapidly growing data-centric product. You will be responsible for our entire infrastructure lifecycle from CI/CD and automation to compliance and production stability all within a fast-paced Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead mentor and grow a high-performing team of DevOps engineers. Delegate tasks effectively manage workloads and create accurate roadmaps to align with product goals.

• Infrastructure Architecture: Architect build and maintain our scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS with a strong focus on Kubernetes (EKS). Drive long-term infrastructure vision to support a widely-used SaaS product.

• Automation & CI/CD: Design implement and manage robust GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines using tools like ArgoCD Tekton Prow and Atlantis to ensure smooth and reliable software delivery.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion and enforce IaC best practices using Terraform and CloudFormation (CFT) to ensure consistent repeatable and version-controlled environments.

• Cloud & Kubernetes Management: Oversee and optimize core AWS services including EKS EC2 Auto Scaling Groups VPC Networking RDS ElastiCache and ECR. Perform Linux optimization and security hardening for our Kubernetes nodes.

• Compliance & Security: Ensure our infrastructure adheres to key compliance standards such as SOC2 and ISO27001. Implement and manage security best practices across the entire stack.

• Monitoring & Reliability: Develop and manage comprehensive monitoring logging and alerting solutions using Prometheus Grafana and AWS CloudWatch to ensure high availability and performance.

• Collaboration & Communication: Serve as a key technical liaison for leadership product teams and customers. Clearly communicate complex infrastructure concepts and handle technical queries with confidence.

Qualifications :

Job Requirements

• Overall Experience: 6 years in DevOps SRE or a related field.

• AWS Experience: A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with AWS. (Alternatively 4 years with another major cloud provider plus 1 year of intensive AWS experience).

• Kubernetes Experience: A minimum of 3 years of deep hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in a production environment preferably with EKS.

• Technical Proficiency:

  • IaC: Strong expertise in Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

  • CI/CD: Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines with tools like ArgoCD Tekton Prow or similar.

  • Scripting: Excellent scripting skills in Shell and Python for automation.

  • AWS Services: In-depth knowledge of EKS EC2 ASG VPC RDS ElastiCache and ECR.

  • Monitoring: Experience with Prometheus Grafana and/or CloudWatch.

• Leadership: Proven experience leading a technical team in a fast-paced Agile/sprint-based environment.

• SaaS Experience: Demonstrated experience managing and scaling infrastructure for a SaaS product.

• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication skills the ability to mentor team members switch context quickly and think strategically about long-term infrastructure needs.

Bonus Points if you have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Familiarity with cloud-native tools like Crossplane Devtron or Karpenter.

• Compliance experience with IM8.

• Professional certifications such as CKA/CKS or AWS Certifications.

• Exposure to data engineering pipelines; specifically managing IAM roles and permissions for services like AWS Glue or DataBrew.

• Experience in managing Apache Airflow on kubernetes cluster.

• Experience conducting load testing for performance tuning and resource optimization.

Additional Information :

BENEFITS & PERKS FOR WORKING AT OLLION

Our employees multiply their potential because they have opportunities to: Create a lasting Impact Learn and Grow professionally & personally Experience great Culture and Be your Whole Self!

Beyond an amazing collaborative work environment great people and inspiring innovative work we have some great benefits and perks:

• Benchmarked competitive in-market total rewards package including (but not limited to): base salary & short-term incentive for all employees
• Fully remote-first small but Global organization; learn wherever whenever frees our people from a rigid view of learning and growth
• Retirement planning (i.e. CPF EPF company-matched 401(k))
• Globally we build benefit plans that offer choices for whatever stage in life our employees are in and allow for flexibility as life happens.  Employees have access to a fully comprehensive benefits package to choose the medical dental and vision insurance plan that best fits their addition to great healthcare coverage we also offer all employees mental health resources and additional wellness programs.
• Generous time off and leave allowances
• And more!

Ollion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ollion does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion sex (including pregnancy and gender identity) national origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization parental status military service or other non-merit factor.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time