[Remote] Lead DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Octus is a global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. The Lead DevOps Engineer will oversee DevOps processes and infrastructure, lead a team of DevOps engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional technology teams to automate operations and ensure system reliability, scalability, and security.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes
- Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Experience with AWS is a plus
- Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications
- Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications
- Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability
- Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations
- Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support
Skills
- At least 7 years of experience in a DevOps role, with 2 years in a leadership position
- Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent)
- Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling
- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents
- Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting
- Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent)
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
Benefits
- Competitive health benefits
- Matched 401k and pension plans
- PTO
- Generous parental leave
- Gym subsidies
- Educational reimbursements for career development
- Recognition programs
- Annual year-end performance bonus
Company Overview
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