Lead DevOps Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Lead level Infrastructure engineer to help set & lead the technical vision for our infrastructure, observability, site reliability, and software release pipeline.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience within an infrastructure team
• Strong experience designing and maintaining large-scale AWS environments focusing on high availability, reliability, and security
• Understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, networking protocols, and cloud-native networking
• Proficiency with modern infrastructure management tools and comfort at the command line
• Experience with multiple tools in the modern DevOps toolkit, infrastructure management tools, and automation
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting a true cloud-native system
• Proven ability to learn quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and adapt to changing business needs
• Proven ability to provide tactical, and technical leadership
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership and foster collaboration within teams
• Strong interpersonal skills – the ability to build and maintain trust networks with your peers
• Ability to understand and communicate complex technical concepts and plans to multiple audiences of varying technical capacity
• Demonstrated project development and leadership skills, focus on results
• Strong presentation skills, with experience conducting workshops or training sessions
• Excellent critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities, particularly in high-pressure situations
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A passion for continuous improvement, focusing on results that positively impact the business and customer

Responsibilities

• Be a thought leader – help drive technical direction
• Build relationships – show our engineers the value of DevOps thinking & culture
• Build our platform – create the tools and workflows that make our engineering teams more productive and able to own their work all the way through to production
• Implement best practices regarding developing, delivering, operating and maintaining services
• Maintain regular and reliable work attendance

Benefits

On-call duty corresponds to being available to respond to critical system issues: 6pm to 9am (the following day), Monday - Friday. A full day (24 hours) on weekends and public holidays