Lead DevOps Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE
Enterprise organization building a modern payments infrastructure...they run lean and move quickly, and the engineers own outcomes end-to-end.  As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you’ll be responsible for keeping the platform resilient, scalable, and secure while enabling developers to ship features quickly and safely. You’ll be hands-on with AWS, automation, observability, and multi-tenant architecture.
 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Cloud Infrastructure
  • Design, build, and operate AWS environments across multiple accounts and regions (Aurora, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway).
  • Balance resilience, cost optimization, and delivery speed in a fast-moving environment.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code
  • Own infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation).
  • Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and configuration management.
• CI/CD & Developer Experience
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
  • Ensure developers can release quickly with built-in guardrails for quality and security.
• Observability & Reliability
  • Implement centralized logging, tracing, and metrics (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Dynatrace/Splunk).
  • Proactively monitor and tune performance; set SLOs and alerts to catch issues early.
• Networking & Security
  • Design and secure VPC architectures (IGWs, NATs, Transit Gateway, private/public subnets).
  • Partner with InfoSec to harden infrastructure, enforce IAM least privilege, and ensure PCI compliance.
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery
  • Architect multi-region and active/active patterns for critical services (Aurora Global, S3 replication, Route 53 failover).
  • Define and automate backup, DR, and failover strategies.
• Collaboration
  • Work closely with developers, product engineers, and program managers in an agile pod model.
  • Provide technical mentorship and influence DevOps best practices across the company.
• Documentation & Standards
  • Maintain documentation for infrastructure, runbooks, and incident response.
  • Promote consistency and repeatability across all environments.

• 5–8+ years hands-on DevOps/SRE experience in AWS-heavy environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services: ECS/Fargate, Lambda, Aurora/RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, CloudFront.
• IaC expertise with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK.
• Solid background in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
• Networking knowledge: VPC design, security groups, peering, Transit Gateway.
• Experience with observability tools (CloudWatch, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Splunk, or similar).
• Proven ability to deliver secure, compliant environments (PCI/SOC2/HIPAA experience a plus).

• Aurora Global Database and multi-region active/active experience.
• Event-driven architectures (Kinesis, EventBridge).
• Data pipelines (Glue, Redshift, Snowflake).
• Kubernetes/EKS or other container orchestration.