DevOps Team Lead

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Team Lead to lead our multi-cloud infrastructure and drive the integration of large-scale platforms across AWS and GCP.

You will be responsible for production reliability, cloud operations, observability, security, FinOps, and infrastructure strategy while leading and mentoring a team of DevOps engineers.

This is a highly impactful player-coach role requiring both strong technical leadership and deep hands-on expertise in operating large-scale distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, and mission-critical production environments serving billions of events per day.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop DevOps and Platform engineers while remaining highly hands-on.
• Own and evolve cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, including Kubernetes-based platforms (EKS/GKE), networking, IAM, storage, and core infrastructure services.
• Lead infrastructure integration efforts during acquisitions, platform consolidations, and cloud migration projects.
• Design, deploy, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Act as the primary escalation point for infrastructure and production issues.
• Lead incident response, post-mortems, and continuous operational improvements.
• Build and maintain observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and related tools, including monitoring standards, alerting strategies, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Support large-scale data pipelines, real-time event processing systems, and high-throughput production environments handling billions of events.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability, observability, scalability, and performance across production systems.
• Troubleshoot and optimize large-scale distributed systems, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives across AWS and GCP, including FinOps practices, resource governance, and cost visibility.
• Support SOC2, ISO27001, and infrastructure security initiatives, implementing operational controls and security best practices.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing large-scale production environments on AWS, with practical experience in GCP.
• Proven experience leading DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams, including mentoring engineers, driving operational excellence, and taking ownership of mission-critical production environments.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), cloud networking, infrastructure security, and Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Karpenter, Keda.
• Experience with infrastructure tooling - Ansible, Chef.
• Strong experience supporting distributed data platforms and production services, including Kafka (MSK), Redis, OpenSearch, and similar technologies.
• Strong experience operating highly available distributed systems, large-scale data pipelines, streaming platforms, and real-time event processing environments.
• Hands-on experience with observability and production operations, including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, and performance optimization.
• Experience with capacity planning, cloud cost optimization (FinOps), and infrastructure governance.
• Experience leading infrastructure integration during acquisitions, platform consolidations, or large-scale cloud migrations.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to perform effectively under pressure in complex production environments.

Bonus Points For

• Experience supporting SOC2, ISO27001, or similar security and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with AdTech, MarTech, Gaming, Analytics, or other high-scale data-driven platforms.
• Experience with ClickHouse, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, or similar analytics platforms.
• Experience with VictoriaMetrics, Thanos, Cortex, ArgoCD, Flux, or other modern observability and GitOps tools.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.