DevOps Team Lead, Core Foundation
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Alpaca Financial Services
Remote - EMEAFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusTerraform
Requirements
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, DevOps Lead, or Site Reliability Engineering Lead, with a track record of successfully managing globally distributed teams.
- Exceptional people management skills, with a deep focus on coaching, mentoring, and fostering team culture across multiple time zones.
- Deep expertise in engineering support frameworks, roadmap planning, and team prioritization methodologies.
- Proven experience owning Change Management lifecycles.
- Proven ability to break down organizational silos, build trust between disparate teams, and shepherd complex systemic updates from conception to deployment.
- Extensive experience managing Incident Management lifecycles and running sustainable, global on-call rotations.
- Incredibly strong communication and organizational skills, with a proven ability to drive and coordinate complex, multi-stage tech rollouts and deployments.
- Solid technical background in modern DevOps/SRE ecosystems.
- Understanding of Kubernetes (GKE).
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Understanding of Relational Databases (PostgreSQL).
- Understanding of Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos).
- Strategic mindset capable of navigating shifting priorities.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and foster a healthy, high-performing globally distributed engineering team.
- Own the execution and delivery of highly critical, complex yearly roadmap items centered around large-scale foundational infrastructure upgrades, high availability, and platform resilience.
- Own and drive the change management processes across engineering and product domains, orchestrating smooth delivery of major systemic changes.
- Design, implement, and refine robust support workflows, agile planning methodologies, and deployment/rollout strategies to ensure operational excellence.
- Manage and optimize the global on-call rotation to ensure team well-being while maintaining high availability.
- Lead incident response (via Rootly), establishing clear communication, rapid resolution processes, and blameless post-mortems.
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