DevOps Team Lead

Sunbit builds financial technology for real life. Our technology eases the stress of paying for life’s expenses by giving people more options on how and when they pay. Founded in 2016, Sunbit offers a next-generation, no-fee credit card that can be managed through a powerful mobile app, as well as a point-of-sale payment option available at more than 25,000 service locations, including auto dealership service centers, optical practices, dentist offices, veterinary clinics, and specialty healthcare services. Sunbit was included on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list. The financial technology company has also been named a Most Loved Workplace®, Best Point of Sale Company, and a Top Fintech Startup by CB Insights. We use cutting-edge innovations in financial technology to bring leading data and features that allow individuals to be qualified instantly, making purchases at the point of sale fast, fair, and accessible for consumers from all walks of life. We create value focused on our core values; we work tirelessly to ensure that Sunbit becomes available to everyone, everywhere.

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About the role

We’re looking for a hands-on Devops Team Lead to build, manage, and scale a high-impact DevOps team. You’ll lead infrastructure strategy, promote DevOps excellence, and drive automation and platform reliability across the organization. This role combines technical leadership with team development and operational ownership.

Your Responsibilities & Impact

Team Leadership & Growth-

• Lead and mentor a team of 5 DevOps engineers.
• Own the impact of Sunbit’s infrastructure on success by providing engineering autonomy.
• Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Grow and structure the team to support expanding infrastructure and business needs.

Infrastructure & Platform Ownership-

• Own and evolve scalable, secure, and observable cloud architecture (with a focus on AWS).
• Leverage Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and GitOps to maintain reproducible infrastructure.
• Proactively identify needs that align with the product and business goals.
• Take the lead on production issues, ensuring availability and timely response.
• Improve CI/CD processes, developer experience, and automation pipelines.
• Lead strategic projects to modernize infrastructure, adopt new technologies, and improve stability.
• Proactively drive retrospectives, platform upgrades, and systemic reliability improvements.
• Monitor infrastructure health, optimize cloud costs, and track infrastructure KPIs.
• Deeply understand system complexity and internal service dependencies.
• Partner with Security to maintain compliance (SOC 2, access control, audits).
• Hands-On Execution - Actively contribute to the design and implementation.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years in a DevOps leadership position and over 5 years of hands-on DevOps experience.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and infrastructure best practices.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Scripting skills (Python/Go/Bash) and a strong automation mindset.
• Track record of improving systems proactively and reactively.
• Experience leading technical teams in complex, distributed environments.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus).
• Solid understanding of security principles, cloud networking, and compliance (SOC 2).
• Strong communication and leadership skills; ability to mentor, motivate, and develop others.