DevOps Lead

Job summary

Seeking a proactive DevOps Lead to own the infrastructure and platform strategy for a rapidly growing AI legal tech platform. This role focuses on scaling and professionalizing infrastructure across cloud, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, and security. The successful candidate will operate as a hands-on technical leader and people manager, driving infrastructure strategy while building and mentoring a growing DevOps team.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating and scaling AWS infrastructure in production environments
• Deep experience with Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform or OpenTofu
• Experience building and improving CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, or similar
• Experience working in startup or high-growth engineering environments
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure or MLOps environments is a plus
• Proven experience leading DevOps or Platform Engineering teams
• Strong ability to operate autonomously and proactively define infrastructure strategy
• Comfortable partnering with senior engineering stakeholders on architectural decisions
• Experience mentoring and coaching developers and less experienced infrastructure engineers
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive initiatives end-to-end
• Experience working in regulated environments with exposure to GDPR, SOC2, or ISO standards is a plus
• Must be located within the CET -2/+2 timezone

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the infrastructure roadmap across cloud and hybrid environments
• Lead the rollout and adoption of Kubernetes across the platform
• Improve and scale CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and deployment workflows
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code practices using OpenTofu/Terraform
• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure, networking, observability, and reliability
• Work closely with Engineering and Data teams to support production systems and data infrastructure
• Coach developers on infrastructure and operational best practices
• Lead and mentor a growing DevOps team while helping establish strong engineering standards
• Drive proactive improvements instead of reactive operational firefighting
• Support scalability initiatives to enable continued rapid customer growth

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