Lead DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Lead infrastructure for an AI platform supporting drug discovery, owning deployment, operations, security, and scaling across the core platform and isolated customer environments. Build and operate Kubernetes on AWS EKS, Argo CD-based GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt, while establishing compliance controls, observability, reliability practices, CI/CD automation, and effective developer workflows.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least six years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure.
• Experience owning production systems, ideally in multi-tenant or customer-specific environments.
• Strong Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code expertise; AWS experience is preferred.
• Hands-on approach and sound judgment about avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly and balance speed, security, cost, and reliability.
• Experience with formal security or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, or GxP is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own a GitOps deployment backbone using Argo CD across multiple clusters.
• Operate Kubernetes on AWS EKS across production environments.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform or OpenTofu and Terragrunt.
• Create isolated, compliant customer environments with separate clusters and data planes.
• Implement secrets management, access controls, infrastructure hardening, and audit-ready security controls.
• Build observability using telemetry, metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• Own reliability, incident response, and operational runbooks.
• Automate CI/CD and releases to support frequent, safe deployments.
• Improve developer workflows for deploying and debugging systems.

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