VP, DevOps Engineering Lead (AWS)
About The Position
The DevOps / Platform Engineering role requires an experienced senior-level engineer with a proven track record of building scalable, high‑performance cloud infrastructure and deployment systems. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for modern DevOps practices and be familiar with recent trends in cloud, containers, and automation. We're looking for someone who works well within a team but is fully capable of independently delivering solutions of significant scope and complexity. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to work quickly and effectively under time pressure are expected.
Requirements
- 5 or more years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience in high‑intensity production environments
- Strong expertise with AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker
- Strong CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
- Experience building or supporting ETL pipelines, data orchestration, or cloud data movement workflows
- Hands‑on experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)
- Strong proficiency with automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
- Comfort working alongside teams developing in Java
- Linux/Unix OS experience
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience migrating on‑prem systems to AWS
- Experience supporting BI / analytics tooling or large‑scale reporting platforms
- Strong networking fundamentals and familiarity with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka)
- Experience with in‑memory datastores (Redis, Memcached)
- Financial services experience, particularly in equities, trading, or market data systems
- Working experience on Snowflake Platform
Responsibilities
- Supporting a major initiative to migrate a legacy on‑prem equities system to AWS
- Designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, IAM, and data services
- Developing CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test, and deployment workflows
- Containerizing applications and managing Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and Docker image pipelines
- Implementing ETL infrastructure and data movement workflows to support the cloud migration
- Building foundational systems for future BI tooling on top of cloud‑based databases
- Implementing and maintaining observability tooling (monitoring, logging, alerting) to ensure system reliability
- Partnering closely with Java development teams to enhance deployment performance and cloud readiness
- Day‑to‑day support and troubleshooting of platform infrastructure and deployment pipelines
Benefits
- annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus
- medical, dental & vision coverage
- 401(k)
- life, accident, and disability insurance
- wellness programs
- paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation)
- unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave)
- paid holidays
- paid parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
