Lead DevOps Engineer

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.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• 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.

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

Cloud & Networking (AWS)

• 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.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation

• 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.
• Ability to automate complex deployment flows and ensure safe rollbacks.

Kubernetes & Containers

• Hands-on experience managing EKS clusters, including VPC CNI, CoreDNS, and Load Balancer Controller.
• Experience evaluating and implementing Service Mesh for inter-service communication.
• Expertise in security, RBAC, namespaces, and troubleshooting in Kubernetes.

Observability & Monitoring

• Experience implementing and maintaining observability stacks using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Datadog, and Grafana Alloy.

Backend & Serverless Development

• Strong experience in developing APIs and services with TypeScript (NestJS or similar frameworks).
• Expertise in serverless architectures with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB.
• Integration with real-time processing services like Kinesis.

Data & Database Management

• Proven ability to manage PostgreSQL databases, ensuring performance tuning, data integrity, backups, and recovery.
• General knowledge of relational and non-relational data modeling in the cloud.

Cloud Cost Management

• Skilled in analyzing and tracking cloud spend using AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Billing dashboards.
• Ability to apply cost optimization strategies based on usage patterns and expense forecasting.

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including finance, security, and product teams.
• Technical leadership in architectural reviews, incident resolution, and postmortem facilitation.

What We Offer:

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