Team Lead, DevOps

Summary

Join Modern Campus as a DevOps Team Lead and be responsible for the operations, management, and automation of client production environments on AWS. Guide the execution of core infrastructure transition initiatives, including containerized environments, deployment modernization, and platform enhancements. Act as a senior technical voice, mentoring team members and ensuring alignment with strategic goals. This hands-on role requires strong engineering execution and leadership in technical direction and cross-functional alignment. Bridge infrastructure and application development, applying SRE practices to ensure production readiness, observability, and operational excellence. Collaborate with peers across DevOps, Security, and Engineering, contributing to the DevOps roadmap.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on infrastructure or DevOps engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a senior or technical lead capacity
• Proven experience designing and implementing infrastructure in AWS (e.g., EC2, ECS, IAM, VPC, RDS)
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform strongly preferred), automation tools (Ansible), and scripting (Python, Bash)
• Expert in Linux administration. Extremely comfortable with command line and use of tools to manage, provision, deploy and automate against Linux systems
• Deep understanding of container platforms and their deployment pipelines (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS)
• Practical experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• Practical experience with Java (JRE/JVM), PHP, Python, Apache and Tomcat
• Comfortable supporting production systems, managing incidents, and participating in an on-call rotation
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling, observability platforms, and agile delivery frameworks
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence peers and lead through example
• Track record of mentoring team members and contributing to team technical growth

Responsibilities

• Ownership of day-to-day production operations, with a focus on site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to proactively detect, resolve, and prevent infrastructure and application issues
• Work closely with development teams to analyze, understand, and address system behavior in production
• Manage escalations, alerts and notifications, client requests and inquiries, cross team communications and task assignments in relation to production operations
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership to DevOps team members through pairing, reviews, and hands-on support
• Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivery forecasting
• Guide sprint execution and task prioritization related to infrastructure enhancements, ensuring delivery quality and continuity
• Lead execution of infrastructure transition efforts, including containerization, automation maturity, and deployment platform modernization
• Influence DevOps roadmap and implementation patterns, balancing stability, performance, and developer velocity
• Promote best practices in infrastructure, deployment, and operations across the team
• Ensure the uptime of our cloud infrastructure in accordance with our SLA and participate in the on-call rotation

Benefits

• The salary range* for this full-time position is between $90,000 - $160,000
• Remote first workplace – and you are located in anywhere in North America our employees get things done!
• RRSP/401(k) with matching employer contributions
• Professional development and internal career mobility opportunities
• Flexible time off
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Mental health benefits
• Financial health benefits
• DEI, Culture and Environment employee led committees
• Collaborative work environment