DevOps Lead JB-3974

Startup company is looking for the first DevOps Lead to build the foundation for scalable, efficient, and reliable infrastructure. In this pioneering role, you will have the unique opportunity to shape and implement best practices for the infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD pipelines, creating the groundwork that will empower our mission to help business leaders make smarter, more profitable decisions with ease.

You will be responsible for:

Evaluate the current deployment process and existing choices.

Ensure the platform and services can grow and scale while maintaining global 24/7 availability, reliability and rigorous SLAs.

Mentor and educate engineering teams on monitoring, logging and tracing techniques to enhance system visibility.

Boost the developer experience and velocity by enabling isolated, on-demand environments for demos, development and testing.

Embed security best practices within the processes, ensuring the infrastructure and deployments are secure by design.

6+ years of proven experience architecting, building and maintaining scalable and highly available production systems in the cloud.

Strong AWS experience - the microservices architecture is built on Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3 and more, and deploy the code using Serverless framework.

Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and a solid grasp of the IaC paradigm (GitHub Actions, Terraform, GitOps, etc.).

Experience with containerizing services and managing containerized deployments.

Experience with container orchestration (such as K8s - advantage).

Deep expertise in observability, alerting and incident response strategies and tools (Grafana, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Logging solutions, etc.)

Adaptability to balance reliability and cost-effectiveness, making pragmatic choices in a startup environment.

Leadership experience in setting DevOps strategy and goals, and executing a clear roadmap.