Lead DevOps Engineer

Accountabilities: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, setting technical direction, facilitating sprint planning, and driving delivery against quarterly objectives. Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure production infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code practices. Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, establishing consistent deployment standards and security controls across engineering teams. Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern, managed platforms and oversee the decommissioning of outdated systems. Define and advance the observability strategy, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call routing across services. Manage infrastructure networking and access controls, ensuring secure, well-documented, least-privilege access across environments. Integrate security throughout the DevOps lifecycle through vulnerability scanning, code and infrastructure analysis, and remediation workflows with clear service-level expectations. Establish and manage FinOps practices, optimizing cloud costs, right-sizing workloads, and reporting infrastructure spend to leadership. Act as the primary escalation point for infrastructure incidents, leading postmortems and ensuring preventive actions are implemented. Ensure infrastructure operations meet applicable healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements. Collaborate with engineering, security, and data teams to align infrastructure priorities with broader technical and business objectives. Requirements: At least 8 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering, including experience mentoring or leading engineers. Deep, hands-on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure at scale, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and access management. Demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining automated build, testing, and deployment pipelines. Strong understanding of security practices and compliance frameworks, including vulnerability scanning, cloud security posture management, and audit logging. Experience implementing and managing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain production reliability. Ability to write code in at least one scripting or systems programming language and manage infrastructure through code. Strong technical leadership skills, with the ability to guide a team while remaining directly involved in engineering work. Excellent communication skills and the ability to move between hands-on technical problem-solving, team leadership, and explaining infrastructure decisions to non-technical stakeholders. Preferred qualifications: Experience working in a regulated industry, particularly healthcare. Familiarity with container orchestration technologies. Experience using AI-driven automation for infrastructure management. Relevant cloud platform certifications. Benefits: Fully remote, remote-first work environment. Approximately 5% travel, including potential trips to Boston, Massachusetts, for onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings or company events. Annual base salary ranging from $150,000 to $185,000, depending on qualifications, experience, skills, and internal alignment. Medical, dental, and vision insurance. Life and disability insurance. Employee Assistance Program. 401(k) retirement plan with company matching. Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options. Flexible time off and company holidays. Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave. Pet insurance. Bonus included as part of the total compensation package. How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best! Why Apply Through Jobgether? Data Privacy Notice: By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Jobgether will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy and share relevant information with the hiring employer. This processing is based on legitimate interest and pre-contractual measures under applicable data protection laws (including GDPR). You may exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, objection) at any time. #LI-CL1