Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Seattle, WA

Duration: / Term: C2C

Experience Desired: 10+ Years
 

Job Description:

• Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud native infrastructure and CI/CD automation across mission critical systems.
• This role combines deep expertise in AWS Cloud, GitLab Pipelines, and Kubernetes to drive reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity.
• Key Responsibilities Cloud Architecture Design and maintain highly available AWS environments using EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• CI/CD Automation Build, optimize, and govern GitLab CI/CD pipelines for multi service deployments.
• Kubernetes Operations Manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters, including scaling, monitoring, and workload orchestration.
• Infrastructure as Code Implement IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation to ensure consistent, repeatable infrastructure.
• Security & Compliance Enforce cloud security standards, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.
• Observability Implement logging, metrics, and tracing using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch.
• Team Leadership Mentor DevOps engineers, establish best practices, and collaborate with development teams.
• Release Engineering Oversee deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for high availability systems.
• Cost Optimization Monitor and optimize cloud spend across compute, storage, and networking.
• Required Skills & Experience
• AWS Expertise 5-8+ years hands-on experience with core AWS services and cloud architecture.
• GitLab CI/CD Strong experience building complex pipelines, runners, and automated deployment workflows.
• Kubernetes Deep knowledge of EKS, Helm, Operators, networking, and cluster lifecycle management.
• Containerization Proficiency with Docker image design, multi-stage builds, and container security.
• IaC Strong Terraform module design and environment provisioning.
• SRE Principles Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets.

Key Skills:

AWS, Devops, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, GitHub.