Lead Engineer, DevOps

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Requirements:

• Extensive experience with provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Experience with git and managed git platforms like GitHub, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Jenkins.
• Experience with application containerization and orchestration tooling like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with setting up and administering Linux-based systems.
• Experience with designing and implementing serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions.
• Experience with architecting, implementing, and maintaining high-availability systems.
• Experience with edge cloud platforms and CDNs like Fastly and AWS CloudFront.
• Experience with developer platforms like Vercel, Netlify, and WP Engine.
• Experience with security platforms like Snyk and SonarQube.
• Experience with observability platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Experience writing automation scripts to solve unique problems using Bash, Python, and other languages commonly used for automation scripting.
• Experience with configuring web servers, proxies, and load balancers like NGINX and Traefik.
• Experience with implementing cost optimization strategies for managing cloud infrastructure spend.
• Experience with secrets management tools like AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience with auditing development workflows and improving developer experience and productivity throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Deep understanding of networking principles, cloud architectures, and web application design.
• Deep understanding of security best practices and experience implementing DevSecOps principles.
• Understanding of application development/deployment principles such as feature flags, blue-green deployments, and canary releases.
• Must be a compelling and clear communicator when collaborating with team members, discussing complex technical topics with others, and authoring architecture diagrams, documentation and PR descriptions.
• Self-motivated and focused on achieving excellence as a team.

Responsibilities:

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure.
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and developing solutions for them.
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for their adherence and updating or creating new methods for improvement and minimizing wastage.
• Mentoring and guiding the team members.