Lead DevOps Engineer

Octus•New York, NY

6d•$160,000 - $215,000

About The Position

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of our DevOps processes and infrastructure. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers, collaborating closely with Application developers, Data engineers, SRE, Security and IT professionals to automate and streamline our operations and processes. You will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems and applications.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in a DevOps role, with 2 years in a leadership position.
Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents.
Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls.
Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures.
Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent.
Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Experience with AWS is a plus.
Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.