Lead DevOps Engineer

Kaleidoscope Animations (Inactive)

  • Raleigh, NC
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    You will work closely with engineering, QA, and platform teams to ensure our systems are highlyavailable, secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient, while mentoring a team of DevOps engineers and driving modern DevOps and SRE practices across the organization. This role combines technical leadership with deep individualcontribution, requiring someone who leads by example while actively designing, implementing, andimproving DevOps capabilities.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationRaleigh, NC

    Description

    Description:

    We are seeking a hands‑on Lead DevOps Engineer to architect, build, and operate our AWS cloudinfrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role combines technical leadership with deep individualcontribution, requiring someone who leads by example while actively designing, implementing, andimproving DevOps capabilities.

    You will work closely with engineering, QA, and platform teams to ensure our systems are highlyavailable, secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient, while mentoring a team of DevOps engineers and driving modern DevOps and SRE practices across the organization.

    Key Responsibilities

    Technical Leadership & Ownership

    Act as a hands‑on technical resource, setting the bar for DevOps engineering excellence

    Mentor and guide DevOps engineers through design reviews, automation standards, and operationalbest practices

    Define and enforce DevOps standards, patterns, and tooling across teams

    Partner with application, QA, and architecture teams to align DevOps strategy with business anddelivery goals

    AWS Infrastructure & Automation

    Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, and resilient AWS infrastructure

    Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation

    Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or AWS‑nativeservices

    Automate environment provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows

    Containers & Platform Engineering

    Design and support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)

    Enable best practices for microservices deployment, scaling, and resilience on AWS

    Support platform capabilities such as blue/green and canary deployments

    Monitoring, Reliability & Operations

    Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using tools like Prometheus, Grafana,Datadog, and CloudWatch

    Own logging and observability solutions (oTel, Splunk etc.)

    Lead root cause analysis, incident response, and continuous reliability improvements

    Participate in and help mature on‑call and operational support processes

    Security, Compliance & Cost Optimization

    Enforce AWS security best practices, including IAM design, secrets management, and vulnerabilityscanning

    Well experienced with all kind of scanning SCA, DAST, SAST and WIZ.IO

    Drive AWS cost optimization through right‑sizing, automation, and cost‑management tooling

    Required Qualifications

    5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering with strong hands‑on delivery

    Proven experience leading or acting as a technical lead for DevOps or SRE teams

    Deep expertise with AWS services and cloud architecture patterns

    Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)

    Extensive experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred)

    Solid background building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and Git‑based workflows

    Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages

    Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering teams

    Preferred Qualifications

    AWS certifications (DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or equivalent)

    Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Gitlab

    Familiarity with micro-services and advanced Kubernetes networking

    Experience operating production systems at scale with a focus on reliability and cost efficiency

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