Team Lead / Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Convoso as a Team Lead/Sr. DevOps Engineer and play a pivotal role in modernizing our cloud infrastructure. You will lead the design and implementation of highly available, secure, and scalable systems on AWS, leveraging best practices and CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include architecting fault-tolerant systems, establishing DevOps maturity standards, mentoring engineers, and guiding the re-platforming of legacy services. This role requires strong leadership skills, extensive experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker), and a deep understanding of DevOps principles. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of successful cloud migrations and experience with IaC, CI/CD tooling, and secrets management. Convoso offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles, with 2+ years in a leadership or mentorship capacity
• Have a solid understanding of containerizing workloads (Docker), and building orchestration around it (K8S)
• Have led, or been a core part of a cloud migration of a SaaS platform
• Are fluent in Cloud core services, networking, IAM, and cost-optimization strategies
• Have hands-on experience with Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD/Flux, CircleCI), Ansible/Chef
• Thrive in ambiguous environments where you can create order and scale
• Have a passion for clean, maintainable, secure infrastructure laid out as code

Responsibilities

• Define the target state for cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and the path to get there
• Architect and implement high-availability, fault-tolerant, and secure systems using AWS best practices
• Lead design of scalable CI/CD pipelines, IaC patterns, and secrets management frameworks
• Establish DevOps maturity standards (SRE, observability, zero-downtime deploys, etc.) and mentor engineers toward them
• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership on infrastructure scalability, performance tuning, and cost optimization
• Guide the re-platforming of legacy services into containers, Kubernetes (EKS), or serverless when appropriate
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Security, Engineering, QA, and Product teams to ensure safe, compliant, fast delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP)
• Experience with on-prem infrastructure, VMWare/Proxmox, or hybrid setups
• A strong DevOps philosophy: you see Ops as part of engineering, not just support

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Stock options
• 100% covered premiums for employees; Medical, Dental, Basic life insurance, Long term disability
• Affordable Vision plan and optional FSA
• PTO, Paid Sick Time, Holidays, Bereavement time, Parental Leave
• Your birthday off
• 401k program with generous company match
• No cost Employee Assistance Program and Travel Assistance
• Monthly Gym membership reimbursement
• Monthly credits toward food & beverage
• Company Outings
• On and offsite team building events
• Paid training for departments
• Apple laptop (most roles)
• And a team of highly experienced and kind colleagues!