Lead Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team and to spearhead our DevOps initiatives and drive efficiency, scalability, and reliability across our software development lifecycle. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our Cloud infrastructure while leading a team of talented DevOps engineers. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background, an exceptional DevOps and Cloud Engineering skills set, and the ability to lead a team to successful project completion and feature delivery.

Wage Type: Salaried

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the essential duties satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist in the development and execution of a comprehensive DevOps strategy aligned with the organization's goals and objectives.
• Breaks down DevOps related feature requests into user stories for use in team and program-based agile planning.
• Emphasize and ensure the effective execution of organized sprints and agile methodologies. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to plan, prioritize, and execute sprints and releases efficiently.
• Design and architect cloud solutions that meet scalability, performance, and security requirements.
• Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Actively promote DevOps Culture across the Engineering and Product teams.
• Oversee the implementation of cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize applications for cloud environments.
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and system failures.
• Conduct hands-on code reviews to ensure code quality, best practices, and adherence to established coding standards. Provide constructive feedback to team members and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and system failures.
• Implement and manage containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes for scalable and efficient application deployment and management.
• Ensure the security of infrastructure and applications by implementing best practices, security controls, and compliance standards.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, processes, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure operational excellence.
• Hands on configuration and troubleshooting of Cloud Platforms and Services
• Carries out responsibilities in a manner consistent with our values and operating principles, in accordance with policy and applicable laws, and with a commitment to commitment to continuous improvement and process excellence.
• Other duties as assigned.

Organizational Structure:

Reports to: Head of Systems Operations

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience.

Required Knowledge/Skills:

• Deep expertise building, deploying, monitoring, and scaling workloads in AWS.
• Expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code including creating and maintaining modules.
• Expertise with CI/CD tooling and creating pipelines to support the full software development.
• Expertise with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Expertise in cloud security practices and compliance standards.
• Experience automating toil automating toil out of day-to-day workflows.
• Ability to communicate and document technical details.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and inspire a team.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and compliance standards.
• Strong scripting experience in Python, Powershell, Bash, or other scripting language
• Experience with Agile methodologies and leading Agile teams.
• Ability to analyze information and make logical recommendations.
• Linux System Administration.

Desired Skills:

• Experience working for a bank or in another highly regulated industry.
• Experience working with offshore resources in EMEA.
• Experience working with Spacelift or other Terraform Automation and Control tools.
• Experience working with New Relic or other SAAS monitoring platforms.
• Experience working with Azure DevOps, Github Actions, or other CICD Tooling
• Experience working with CloudFlare.
• Experience working with Ansible or other configuration as code tools.
• Experience with repository and artifact management.
• Governance as Code and Policy as Code experience.
• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert) are highly desirable.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies is desirable.

Desired Experiences:

• 8+ years of experience in Development, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering or other relevant role
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role

Talents:

• Strong positivity
• Mission driven, competitive, goal oriented, enthusiastic, and motivated to develop themselves and others.
• Energetic, resourceful, and appropriate work intensity to get the work done.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to focus in distracting environments.
• Curious natured and willing to try and enjoy new experiences.
• Strong people acumen and relationship skills; naturally pre-disposed to quickly establish positive personal and professional relationships.

Other:

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• Must be able to lift to 20 pounds.