Lead DevOps Engineer

### Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, TechOps, or similar roles
- 5+ years of experience leading technical projects or contributing as a technical lead
- 3+ years working with containers and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
- Strong proficiency in shell scripting and at least one programming language such as Python or Go
- Demonstrated ability to define project scope, requirements, and delivery milestones
- Experience leading or collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams
- Solid experience operating and optimizing AWS production environments
- Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability technologies (e.g., OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience with at least two configuration or IaC tools, such as Puppet, Salt, Ansible, or Terraform
- Experience implementing or managing secrets management tools (e.g. Vault, AWS Secrets Manger)
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and vulnerability management

### What the job involves
- As a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer, you will drive initiatives that enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of both production and development environments
- You will lead major infrastructure and automation projects, improve tools and processes, and ensure the seamless deployment, monitoring, and operation of critical applications
- This role includes guiding CI/CD strategy, advancing infrastructure-as-code practices, and providing operational leadership across engineering teams
- Provide technical leadership across infrastructure and automation projects
- Drive automation and maintenance of performance testing and pre-production environments
- Lead containerization efforts and champion Infrastructure as Code best practices
- Design and implement automation for engineering, deployment, and operational workflows
- Define and execute high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies
- Architect, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple services and teams
- Create, maintain, and automate runbooks to improve operational consistency and reduce toil
- Participate in and guide on-call support, ensuring production systems remain stable and performant