Job Summary:
Kaleidoscope Innovation is seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to architect, build, and operate their AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role requires technical leadership and individual contribution, focusing on mentoring DevOps engineers and driving modern DevOps practices across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• 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 operational best practices
• Define and enforce DevOps standards, patterns, and tooling across teams
• Partner with application, QA, and architecture teams to align DevOps strategy with business and delivery goals
• 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-native services
• Automate environment provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows
• 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
• 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
• Enforce AWS security best practices, including IAM design, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning
• Drive AWS cost optimization through right‑sizing, automation, and cost‑management tooling
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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:
• 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
Company:
When clients come to us for product design and development, they get a full range of technical expertise and laboratory resources, but they also get a team that’s relentless when it comes to solving problems and creating designs that are the ideal combination of function and form. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Cincinnati, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.