Lead DevOps Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts in production environments. You will lead automation efforts, ensure compliance with security frameworks, and manage key systems like Kubernetes clusters and databases. This role requires strong leadership skills as you will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive strategic initiatives aligned with business outcomes.

In Short

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts in production, ensuring compliance with security frameworks like NIST SP 800-53.
• Lead infrastructure automation using Pulumi, CloudFormation, Helmfile, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS) and networking components such as Load Balancer Controller, CoreDNS, VPC CNI, and service mesh evaluations.
• Monitor and log platform-wide services using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Grafana Alloy, and Datadog. Lead postmortems to improve system reliability.
• Maintain PostgreSQL databases, ensuring performance, data integrity, and reliability.
• Coordinate with product owners, engineering managers, and other teams to align infrastructure goals with business outcomes.
• Analyze cloud costs using AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Billing dashboards. Recommend and implement cost-saving strategies.
• Architect and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and integrate with Kinesis for real-time data processing.
• Mentor junior engineers on DevOps and software architecture best practices. Facilitate architectural reviews and lead incident resolution.
• Manage complex networking architectures using VPCs, Transit Gateway, and VPC endpoints to enable secure communication between services and accounts.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of AWS infrastructure services: EC2, VPC, Transit Gateway, Auto Scaling, IAM, VPC Endpoints.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking design: subnets, NAT Gateway, routing tables, and cross-account security.
• Experience with multi-account, multi-region architectures aligned with compliance standards such as NIST SP 800-53.
• Advanced experience with Pulumi, CloudFormation, Helmfile, and Git-based version control.
• Proven track record in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
• Hands-on experience managing EKS clusters, including VPC CNI, CoreDNS, and Load Balancer Controller.
• Experience evaluating and implementing Service Mesh for inter-service communication.
• Experience implementing and maintaining observability stacks using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Datadog, and Grafana Alloy.
• Strong experience in developing APIs and services with TypeScript (NestJS or similar frameworks).
• Proven ability to manage PostgreSQL databases, ensuring performance tuning, data integrity, backups, and recovery.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus structure.
• Professional development and leadership training.
• Opportunities to work with an innovative and fast-growing company.