DevOps Tech Lead

The project is moving everything towards GCP and Kubernetes. We’re growing towards a scale that no longer matches our legacy architecture and actively investing in modernization. We’re migrating on-premise workloads to GKE, strengthening security and business continuity best practices, and moving toward platform self-service for our development teams. A core goal is to consolidate and shrink the stack and every migration decision is measured against whether it lowers the daily burden on the team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience being a mentor/leader, of which:
• 1+ years leading a team, formally or as a tech lead
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, of which:
• 3+ years running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE preferred)
• 3+ years of experience with a major cloud provider and Infrastructure as Code. GCP is our primary cloud and we expect senior-level knowledge of IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL and Secret Manager
• 3+ years of experience operating at a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer level.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operations
• Experience with GitOps (FluxCD or ArgoCD)
• Experience working directly with engineering teams and other managers as your customers on scoping and prioritization
• Experience leading incident response, including running postmortems

Responsibilities

• Work with your team to design, build, and operate the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on: clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, and observability
• Your customers are the other engineering teams. Work with the other Engineering Managers and product development leadership to scope and prioritize platform work
• Set the quality bar for your team. Lead by example.
• Manage, lead, and mentor your team while working side by side with them in code quality, clean infrastructure-as-code, soft skills, best practices, etc
• Lead team trainings, set SMART goals, hold performance reviews, and provide individual feedback recurrently to each of your devs

Nice to have:

• Experience leading a team through a significant architectural migration
• Experience with consumer platforms at scale
• Experience building in regulated environments
• Experience operating self-hosted observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
• Experience supporting .NET/C# application deployments
• Experience with database operations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with Istio or other service meshes