Lead DevOps Engineer

Department: Technology

Experience: 5 to 6 years

• Lead platform-engineering initiatives and define the technical direction for our infrastructure.
• Own the design, provisioning, operation, security and continuous improvement of AWS infrastructure.
• Evaluate technical options, make well-reasoned platform decisions, document them and execute them.
• Drive the migration of CI/CD workflows from Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline to GitHub Actions.
• Build reusable, reliable and secure delivery workflows that improve developer productivity.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and reduce manual infrastructure operations.
• Lead the adoption of Dash0 and strengthen practices around metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting.
• Establish platform standards for reliability, scalability, security, observability and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, networking and production reliability issues.
• Replace repetitive operational work and recurring fixes with durable automation.
• Partner with development teams to improve deployment processes and the overall developer experience.
• Improve platform documentation, operational procedures and recovery practices.

• Around five years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, site reliability or platform engineering.
• Strong experience designing, deploying and operating production workloads on AWS.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, security, monitoring and infrastructure architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform or an equivalent tool.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including practical GitHub Actions experience.
• Experience with Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild or AWS CodePipeline and an understanding of migration considerations.
• Good understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, TLS, access management and production troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in infrastructure automation and scripting using Python, Bash or a similar language.
• Understanding of observability across metrics, logs, distributed traces, dashboards and actionable alerting.
• Ability to balance delivery speed, maintainability, reliability, security and cost when making decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly.

• Experience with Dash0 or another OpenTelemetry-based observability platform.
• Experience migrating CI/CD or observability platforms.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps or Argo CD.
• Familiarity with AWS cost management, governance, security controls and multi-account architecture.
• Experience creating reusable platform components, deployment templates or standardized engineering workflows.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-functional technical initiatives.

• Clear ownership and standards are established for the AWS platform.
• Meaningful progress is made in migrating delivery workflows to GitHub Actions.
• Infrastructure automation improves and reliance on manual operations declines.
• Dash0 adoption advances and production visibility becomes stronger and more actionable.
• Recurring operational issues are reduced through root-cause fixes and automation.
• Deployment reliability and the infrastructure experience for development teams improve.
• Technical documentation and repeatable operational practices are in place.