Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Tech Lead

About the role

The successful candidate will be a hands-on technical leader, responsible for leading a team of DevOps and Security engineers to prioritize, schedule, and implement DevOps & Security tasks. This role requires you to be opinionated in the direction that DevOps & Security practices are going, make practical recommendations, and take the initiative for the long-term health of the infrastructure and security posture.

What You’ll Do

• Build and operate our AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS clusters, GitOps pipelines (ArgoCD/Helm), and CI/CD (TeamCity)
• Write and own infrastructure-as-code across both Terraform and AWS CDK, setting reusable, well-tested, peer-reviewed patterns
• Build and enhance our security posture, including topics such as: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, vulnerability and patch management, dependency/supply-chain (SCA) and code (SAST/DAST) scanning, and shifting security left into the developer workflow
• Analyze performance and other observability metrics using tools like Datadog to assess the health of our infrastructure, spot regressions and bottlenecks, and drive improvements
• Lead a team of DevOps and Security engineers to prioritize, schedule, and implement DevOps & Security-related tasks
• Help lead the overall technical vision and strategy for all things DevOps & Security
• Discuss with and educate other team members in DevOps methodology, design, and best practices

What You’ll Bring

• Welcoming and collaborative, eager to both learn from and teach fellow engineers while working across diverse time zones and locations
• Thriving in a remote environment, enjoying the dynamic interaction and knowledge sharing with a globally distributed team
• Comfortable in an agile, fast-paced startup environment

Education & Experience

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on experienced DevOps engineer with at least 5 years of experience as an individual contributor and at least 2 years of experience as a team lead
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration
• In-depth knowledge of AWS and cloud networking
• Demonstrated hands-on security experience: IAM/least-privilege, secrets management, vulnerability management, and security scanning (SAST/DAST/SCA)
• Significant experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Experienced with performance monitoring tools such as Datadog and have a strong understanding of infrastructure and application performance metrics
• Experience with the Java programming language
• Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is nice to have