Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

• Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline the development lifecycle.
• Automation: Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment processes.
• Monitoring and Performance: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure system health, performance, and reliability.
• Security: Ensure the security of cloud infrastructure and applications, including identity management and compliance with industry standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with client and development teams to integrate DevOps practices and deliver high-quality software.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, configurations, and processes.
• Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, integrating them into the DevOps strategy as appropriate.

Qualifications: 

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience: 7 - 10 years of overall experience with relevant experience of at least 7 years in DevOps and served as a lead or senior engineer.

About the company

The client is a US-based cybersecurity startup prevents, detects, and responds to software supply chain attacks by analyzing behavior across the full software development lifecycle for both developers and AI coding agents. They are building a vertical AI agent for supply chain security across three pillars: securing AI agents on developer machines, OSS package security, and CI/CD security, covering the entire agentic pipeline from dev environment to cloud.

Founded by ex-Microsoft, 21 years & ex-Uber, Microsoft, Plaid founders, they are a 16-person team working on hard problems at the intersection of security, AI, and open source. 

Why this role is exciting 

They are at the forefront of supply chain security research and product development. They were the first to detect several major supply chain attacks in 2025 and 2026, including the axios npm compromise and tj-actions. Their research is regularly cited by Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Hacker News, and Dark Reading. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published advisories citing the company. 

Beyond their enterprise customers, the company has been adopted by more than 15,000 open-source projects, including projects from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Datadog. 

This is a zero-to-one platform role. Today the AWS cost, service health visibility, and their release process are owned in pieces by engineers who are also shipping product. You will own all three end to end, as the first dedicated platform hire, with meaningful early-stage equity upside. 

Their stack 

GitHub.com for code repositories. GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines. AWS serverless for hosting our services: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3. Backend services are written in Golang. 

What you'll do 

• Own AWS cost. Build real visibility into where our cloud spend goes, then drive it down. Put guardrails and anomaly alerting in place so cost regressions get caught in days, not at the end of the month. 
• Build service health visibility. Define and instrument the metrics that tell us whether the platform is healthy. Build the dashboards, set the SLOs, and wire up alerting that pages on real problems and stays quiet otherwise. 
• Own the release process. Design and implement how code gets from a pull request to production, including staged rollouts, rollback, release approvals, and change management that satisfies our enterprise customers and our ISO 27001 obligations without slowing engineers down. 
• Improve stability. Run infrastructure as code, tighten our incident response and on-call practices, and drive postmortems to actual fixes. 
• Secure our own pipelines. We sell CI/CD and cloud security, so our own build and deploy path should be the best reference implementation we have. You will run it that way. 

What we're looking for 

• 2 to 5 years of experience with strong engineering fundamentals. 
• Demonstrated AWS cost reduction. We want to hear what the spend was, what you did, and what it became. 
• Hands-on depth with AWS serverless in production, not just in theory. 
• Experience implementing metrics, dashboards, and alerting for service health, and evidence that it changed how the team operated. 
• Experience building or significantly improving CI/CD and release processes, ideally with GitHub Actions. 
• Comfortable writing code. Golang or Python, plus infrastructure as code. 
• An AI-native mindset, with prior hands-on experience building with or operating AI agents. 
• Early-stage startup experience. You are extremely hands-on and can drive a problem end to end without a team behind you. 
• A security background is a plus but not required. 

●              Work with application development teams to identify and understand their operational pain points.

●              Document these challenges and define goals to be achieved by the infrastructure team.

●              Prototype and evaluate multiple solutions, often by experimenting with various vendors and tools available, to achieve the goals undertaken.

●              Rollout tools and processes with heavy focus on automation.

●              Evangelize and help onboard application development teams on the platforms provided by the infrastructure team.

●              Co-own the responsibility with application development teams to ensure the reliability of services.

●              Design and implement solutions around observability to ensure ease of maintenance and quick debugging of services

●              Establish and implement administrative and operational best practices in the application development teams.

●              Find avenues to reduce infrastructure costs and drive optimization in all services.

●              5+ years of experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)

●              Experience with git, CI / CD, Docker, etc

●              Experience in working with infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc).

●              Strong Linux Shell scripting experience

●              Experience with one of the programming languages like Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.

• Automate deployments of infrastructure components and repetitive tasks.
• Drive changes strictly via the infrastructure-as-code methodology.
• Promote the use of source control for all changes including application and system-level changes.
• Design & Implement self-recovering systems after failure events.
• Participate in system sizing and capacity planning of various components.
• Create and maintain technical documents such as installation/upgrade MOPs.
• Coordinate & collaborate with internal teams to facilitate installation & upgrades of systems.
• Support 24x7 availability for corporate sites & tools.
• Participate in rotating on-call schedules.
• Actively involved in researching, evaluating & selecting new tools & technologies.

• Cloud computing – AWS, OCI, OpenStack
• Automation/Configuration management tools such as Terraform & Chef
• Atlassian tools administration (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
• Scripting languages - Ruby, Python, Bash
• Systems administration experience – Linux (Redhat), Mac, Windows
• SCM systems - Git
• Build tools - Maven, Gradle, Ant, Make
• Networking concepts - TCP/IP, Load balancing, Firewall
• High-Availability, Redundancy & Failover concepts
• SQL scripting & queries - DML, DDL, stored procedures
• Decisive and ability to work under pressure
• Prioritizing workload and multi-tasking ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Database systems – Postgres, Oracle, or other RDBMS
• Mac automation tools - JAMF or other
• Atlassian Datacenter products
• Project management skills

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in the field or related area
• Requires MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent field

Job Description

• Experienced in Cloud (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google& Azure) development and System Operations.
• Cloud Storage Services and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon. DigitalOcean (or other cloud providers).
• Strong Linux experience (Red Hat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x, Debian).
• Expert Knowledge in - Git, Jenkins
• Should have experience in CI/CD Automation using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, puppet/Mcollective, Chef Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Hashicorp Vault Docker, Kubernetes, Python Scripting etc.
• Good working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python, php
• Good communications and Presentation Skills

Preferred Education:

Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Computer Science or related field

Mandatory Skills Sets                                                                   

• Excellent problem-solving skills in technical challenges
• Deep knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS Preferred)
• Understanding of Latest cloud computing technologies
• Experience in architecting solutions based on knowledge of infrastructure & application architectures including the integration approaches
• Complete hands-on with ability to grasp evolving technologies and coding languages
• Excellent communication skills which would involve customer facing role
• Design thinking
• Customer facing skills and strong technical capabilities to review the teams work as well as guide the team
• Experience working/building/contributing to proposals for architecture, estimations

Preferred Skills Sets                                                                      

• Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures.
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers.
• Person must have performed Application Architect Role for 3+ years
• AWS platform specific experience a bonus.
• Enterprise application and database architecture a bonus.