About the Role
We’re looking for a seasoned DevOps Lead to architect and scale cloud infrastructure powering platforms with 500,000+ active users. This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. You’ll lead global incident response efforts, drive automation, and ensure infrastructure resilience in high-demand environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Leadership: Architect and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS using Kubernetes.
- Terraform Pipeline Ownership: Design and maintain advanced Terraform pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, modularization, and lifecycle automation.
- Incident Management: Lead P1 and P2 incident response across global ESR, Level 2, and Level 3 support teams, ensuring rapid resolution, coordination, and post-incident analysis.
- Autoscaling Expertise: Implement and optimize Karpenter for dynamic, cost-efficient node provisioning in Kubernetes clusters.
- CI/CD Strategy: Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitoring & Observability: Deploy and manage tools like Datadog and CloudWatch to ensure performance and reliability.
- Security & Compliance: Enforce best practices in cloud security, IAM policies, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, SOC2).
- Cost Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud spend across services and environments.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product, and QA teams to align infrastructure with business goals.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience supporting high-volume platforms with 500,000+ active users or more.
- 7+ years of hands-on DevOps experience, including leadership of global teams.
- Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Advanced proficiency in Kubernetes (preferably EKS) in production environments.
- Guru-level hands-on experience with Terraform, including modules, workspaces, remote state, and pipeline integration.
- High proficiency in Karpenter managed EKS services
- Strong background in P1/P2 incident response, escalation workflows, and coordination across distributed support teams.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration best practices.
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and performance tuning in cloud-native environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
- Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and Kubernetes operators.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows.
- Basic understanding of AI concepts and how they integrate with cloud infrastructure.
- Background in SRE or platform engineering.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and performance bonuses
- Collaborative and growth-oriented team culture.
- Learning & development budget
- Opportunity to shape infrastructure strategy for a high-growth product
