As a DevOps Engineering Lead, you will work closely with our Engineering and Product Management teams to guide and mentor a team of 4-7 people to deliver infrastructure improvements and tools into the stack while balancing technical and project needs.  Additionally, you are expected to be up to date with the latest trends and technologies in production infrastructure and tooling, in order to ensure that best practices for quality software development and testing methodologies are followed. You will work with the Architecture team to ensure that business requirements that have been turned into technical requirements become technical specifications, and work with your team to clarify and implement those specifications.

 



In this role, you will:

 

• Engage in recurring 1-on-1s with team members and support their development through regular coaching and mentorship


• Prepare and execute annual performance reviews and 6-month check-ins for team members


• Work as an individual contributor in our devops workflow


• Help engineers get their work done by supporting the team with blockers and continually looking for ways to improve team efficiency


• Review implementation plan with the team


• Work within KanBan to establish timelines for the completion of the project and facilitate technical estimation by either doing technical estimation directly or supporting a team member’s effort


• Triage incoming bugs and tickets for the team and ensure triaged BATs get into sprints


• Be on call for support (rotating, low-impact shifts)

• Have a minimum of 5+ years of experience in a production engineering or devops role, with at least 2+ years leading others


• Have at least 1+ year of experience working remotely for a SaaS/tech company


• Demonstrate a track record of being accountable for technical projects with an understanding of how to make projects successful


• Be comfortable and have experience giving feedback on performance to others


• Have experience working in a cloud-native architecture on a platform like AWS, Google App Engine or Azure


• Have a practical understanding of deployment pipelines and testing frameworks


• Know how to work with CI tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and others


• Have experience working with container technology such as Docker and/or others


• Believe that writing tests as part of a feature is not just a nice to have, but necessary


• Be comfortable using Git and related tools like GitHub, GitLab and so on


• Have experience with relational databases, SQL and engines like PostgreSQL and MySQL


• Demonstrate expertise with web application architecture and web server technologies like Apache, Nginx, and ISS

• Have project management or SCRUM experience


• Read our blog and are excited about how we work, and the challenges we are solving for our customers


• Have working experience with build tools such as Webpack and npm scripts


• Have experience creating, maintaining and deploying applications to AWS - Cloud Computing Services

• Have previously worked for a SAAS-based startup


• Have experience working with container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes


• Are comfortable with Golang and Rails Engines