Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer
About The Position
Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company reaching over 30M+ monthly visitors. As The Discovery and Conversion Company, our mission is to connect consumers with the world’s leading brands through data-driven content and technology. Headquartered in South Florida with a remote-first team spanning over 15 countries, we’ve built a high-growth, high-performance culture where speed, ownership, and measurable impact drive success. This role involves owning and evolving Launch Potato's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and compliance posture. The goal is to build the SRE function from the ground up, enabling product teams to ship faster without compromising reliability, security, or cost control.
Requirements
- 5+ years of production AWS infrastructure experience with deep Terraform expertise.
- Hands-on experience building the SRE function from scratch and had complete ownership.
- Experience with a multi-site company where PaaS or microservices are required.
- CI/CD pipeline ownership in one or more previous roles.
- PagerDuty experience and standing up an on-call rotation.
- 5+ years hands-on with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipeline ownership, and SRE tooling (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, PagerDuty or equivalent) in a production environment.
- Ownership orientation: Proactively identify and fix issues, create documentation.
- Documentation discipline: Write runbooks, decision rationale, architecture patterns, incident post-mortems.
- Cost consciousness: Understand and communicate the business impact of infrastructure decisions.
- Calm under pressure: Ability to handle production incidents, triage clearly, communicate proactively, and run post-mortems.
- Cross-functional communication: Ability to work with product engineers, legal/compliance, and executive leadership.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Launch Potato's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and compliance posture.
- Build the SRE function from the ground up.
- Stand up the SRE practice from scratch, including on-call rotation, PagerDuty configuration, SLA/SLO definitions for core infrastructure services, runbook library, and observability dashboards.
- Complete the AWS multi-account migration.
- Deliver SOC 2 Type I audit-ready infrastructure evidence package.
- Version and publish the Terraform module library to a private registry.
- Implement automated deployment rollback for ECS and Lambda.
- Stand up monthly cost reporting to leadership.
Benefits
- Profit-sharing bonus
- Competitive benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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