[Remote] Lead DevOps Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Planet Depos ships enterprise software for the legal industry, handling confidential litigation material and requiring secure, reliable infrastructure. The Lead DevOps Engineer will own product environments, databases, CI/CD, observability, compliance automation, and infrastructure security while leading and mentoring a platform team. This player-coach role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, incident escalation, and partnership across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and govern all product environments, including database tiers, with infrastructure as code
• Own and evolve our existing CI/CD pipelines, and design new ones from scratch for green-field projects, across every environment from commit to production; delegate pipeline work as the team grows
• Steward database operations with the team: backup/recovery, availability, capacity, patching (deep DBA specialization is not required; the standard is that the platform's data layer is operated deliberately, not that this person is a DBA)
• Design compliance-reporting automation and access controls (least-privilege, break-glass, safe analyst read paths) at the infrastructure layer, including audit support
• Build observability (today: CloudWatch) that lets service-owning teams troubleshoot their own systems, not just alert this team
• Coordinate releases and environment readiness across internal and external (vendor) development teams
• Set the documentation standard: runbooks and infrastructure docs that are readable by both humans and agents; automate documentation to stay current
• Lead and mentor the engineers doing this work; be the senior escalation point for production incidents. Be comfortable with junior engineers attending standups and coordinating with you asynchronously
• Partner with application engineers to gather requirements so environment and data constraints are designed in, not discovered late

Skills

• You have owned environments end to end, as code
• You have built and run the full set of environments (e.g. production, staging, QA, development, prototyping and compliance environments) for a product team, and kept them reproducible through infrastructure as code rather than tribal knowledge
• You have designed and run the monitoring, dashboards, and alerting for production systems, and you built them for the people who own the services, not just for the platform team
• You build infrastructure that answers to both engineering and the business, not just plumbing
• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/platform roles, including 2+ years leading the work of other engineers
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform or equivalent IaC, and CI/CD. We run containers on ECS/Fargate with ECR and observability on CloudWatch today; comparable container-orchestration experience transfers fine
• Working familiarity with relational database operations (backup/recovery, availability, capacity on SQL Server, Postgres, or managed equivalents). Deep DBA specialization is not required, and data modeling or data-warehouse experience is not needed; schemas are app-owned here
• Hands-on compliance work (SOC 2 or similar) in a regulated industry
• Legal-industry experience is a plus, not a requirement; regulated-industry judgment is the requirement

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Life insurance (Voluntary Term and Whole Life)
• Voluntary Long Term Disability
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• 401(k)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Maternity Leave

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