Key Responsibilities:

• DevOps Leadership: Champion DevOps principles and best practices across engineering, product, and operations teams. Serve as the organization’s subject matter expert in DevOps.
• Infrastructure Ownership: Take complete ownership of our AWS infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and cost-efficiency. Manage cloud resources through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions (or similar) to streamline build, test, and deployment workflows across multiple environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the adoption and implementation of IaC using AWS CDK to manage infrastructure across all environments.
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Implement observability tools and establish incident response playbooks to ensure reliability and fast recovery during outages or incidents.
• Security & Compliance: Collaborate with security teams to ensure infrastructure meets compliance and security best practices, including least-privilege IAM, audit logging, and secrets management.
• Team Building: Recruit, mentor, and manage a growing DevOps team. Define the team’s charter and help set a vision for scalable infrastructure and deployment practices.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience leading and building DevOps or platform engineering teams in a cloud-first environment.
• Expert level experience with AWS services, architecture patterns, and cost optimization with a proven track record of supporting high-traffic, real-time web applications..
• Expert level experience with Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and Terraform.
• Expert Level understanding of GitHub, including GitHub Actions, branching strategies, and secure secret management.
• Experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for modern applications (monoliths and microservices).
• A strong security-first mindset with familiarity in implementing controls for cloud-native applications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a passion for empowering developers and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Skills & Nice-to-Have Experience:

At least one of the following skills:

• Previous Experience with modern backend languages like Rust, Go, or Node.
• Previous Experience with New Relic and Sentry
• Previous Experience implementing a DevSecOps Pipeline to ensure Security Best Practices are enforced.