Lead DevOps Engineer

OctusNew York, NY
$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.

Benefits

  • competitive health benefits
  • matched 401k and pension plans
  • PTO
  • generous parental leave
  • gym subsidies
  • educational reimbursements for career development
  • recognition programs
  • pet-friendly offices (US only)
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