Lead DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that builds paved paths to enable other engineering teams to build secure and reliable services.
• Make technical decisions and own the roadmap across the domains of platform reliability and infrastructure security - observability platform, incident management, cloud & network security, infrastructure vulnerabilities.
• Encourage innovation and continuous improvement across reliability (alert hygiene, MTTR, DORA) and security (vulnerability remediation, hardening coverage) outcomes.
• Uphold a high bar of engineering, quality & security standards - including encryption at rest and in transit for production data, and DR/BCP execution across regions.
• Collaborate with other parts of the business to discover and estimate solution options to key strategic initiatives.
• Accountability for delivering technical solutions within estimated timeframes.
• Operate in a get-things-done, value demonstrating, iterative manner.
• Influence and problem solve with Sr, Mid and Jr. engineers to deliver high quality outcomes. Your technical leadership and mentorship will be key to driving the squads to successful outcomes.
• As a key member of the technical leadership team, contribute to driving standards, ways of working and platform decision making.
• This role is a player-coach.

Requirements

• A skilful engineer with high standards, passion for quality and a few years of experience under your belt. You are a problem solver and are able to tackle highly complex and ambiguous problems, balancing the right tradeoffs in a pragmatic way.
• Building Resilient Platform Operations: Proven experience establishing a strong platform operations function from the ground up, including authoring comprehensive incident response playbooks, defining SLOs/SLIs, and driving a culture of reliability across product squads.
• Securing Distributed Cloud Architectures: Deep technical expertise in infrastructure security and site reliability for complex, highly isolated environments, specifically demonstrating hands on experience securing Kubernetes clusters, implementing network policies for cell based architectures, and translating InfoSec policies and standards into automated infrastructure guardrails.
• Experience with SAST & DAST, CI/CD pipelines, and associated security toolings around SDLC (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Snyk, etc).
• Experience with building and testing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plans in the cloud (AWS) across multiple regions.
• Experience with authentication & authorization platforms, CIAM, OAuth2, OpenID, and ensuring high customer security posture.
• Proven leadership in driving projects from concept to delivery, working cross functionally with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to align on vision, requirements, and timelines.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in DevSecOps and 2+ years of experience as a lead/staff engineer.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building resilient platform operations and securing distributed cloud architectures, with a strong focus on incident management, infrastructure security, and driving a culture of reliability. Proven ability to lead cross functional teams and deliver technical solutions while maintaining high engineering and security standards.

Hard Skills

• Incident Response Playbooks
• SLOs/SLIs Definition
• Network Policies Implementation
• SAST & DAST
• CI/CD Pipelines
• AWS Cloud Services
• OAuth2
• OpenID
• GitHub
• GitLab

Soft Skills

• Problem Solving
• Mentorship
• Collaboration
• Influencing
• Continuous Improvement

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools & Technologies

• Jenkins
• Snyk
• Observability Platforms
• Incident Management Tools
• Security Tooling