Lead DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Leads the hands-on design and operation of AWS infrastructure for a multi-region platform, using CloudFormation to build reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient environments. The role also involves developing Node.js automation, managing CI/CD pipelines and monitoring, troubleshooting production systems, leading infrastructure projects, and mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, site reliability, or systems engineering.
• At least 2 years of lead experience.
• Extensive CloudFormation experience, including complex templates, multi-environment stacks, updates, rollbacks, drift detection, and stack lifecycle management.
• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, CodeBuild, and Elastic Beanstalk.
• Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Production experience with Node.js services, automation, internal tools, or deployed applications is preferred.
• Experience debugging production systems and applications, including database performance tuning.
• Knowledge of AWS security, networking, encryption, and least-privilege access.
• Strong Linux systems experience.
• U.S. citizenship or permanent residency; sponsorship is unavailable.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers on infrastructure projects is preferred.
• Experience operating multi-region or globally distributed AWS environments is preferred.
• Experience with containers on ECS or EKS is preferred.
• Cloud cost optimization or FinOps experience is preferred.
• Experience in fast-growing, high-scale engineering teams is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation.
• Operate multi-region AWS environments for high availability, scalability, failover, and security.
• Build and maintain Node.js tools and services for automation, deployments, monitoring, and platform operations.
• Design and run CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Manage logging, monitoring, and alerting across AWS environments.
• Lead infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure, applications, and pipelines.
• Improve performance, reliability, security, and cloud cost efficiency.
• Lead infrastructure projects and mentor engineers.
• Document infrastructure, automation, and operational processes.

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