Devops Lead opening at Redaptive, US based product company !!

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Support and extend the Redaptive DevOps platform which powers our APIs, IoT infrastructure, ML and data storage needs.
• Collaborate with Architect, Software Engineers, QA, Data Scientists, and Product Managers to design and improve systems and processes which support hardware and software deployments.
• Act as an escalation point to manage operational issues. Responds to active incidents and proactively works to improve our platform to ensure operational stability.
• Support and extend monitoring systems for production environments. Enable teams to manage and monitor their systems using tools such as Prometheus and/or Grafana
• Provide daily guidance, mentorship, and coaching to your team (2-3 DevOps engineers, to start with). Establish processes to ensure career growth and development of DevOps team/members.
• Manage priorities across various internal clients. Participate in agile development processes.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Implement and manage security best practices, including automated security testing and monitoring for vulnerabilities.
• Monitor and optimize the cost of cloud resources and infrastructure, ensuring efficient use of resources.
• Implement and manage backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Automate repetitive tasks to increase efficiency and reduce manual intervention in processes.
  Analyze system performance and implement improvements to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Implement and manage configuration management solutions to maintain consistent environments across development, testing, and production.
  Other duties as assigned
• This role requires to be available during USA day time hours to address contingencies (rotational on call model)

Required Abilities and Skills:

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA, product managers, and operations.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to changing requirements.
• Having SRE mindset will be an added advantage.
• Strong technical skills in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree (or higher) in Engineering or Science, STEM, or similarly quantitative field
• Minimum of 6 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer with AWS platform.
• AWS Certifications: Associate level required; Professional is a plus.
• Hands-on experience of AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC and most of the popular services. Experience with IoT is a plus.
• Minimum of 3 year working with and maintaining container orchestration solutions- Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. Elasticsearch experience is a plus.
• Experience in developing and operating CI and CD. Experience with CircleCI is a plus.
• Programming skills in developing and operating software in cloud environments (e.g. Bash, Java, Python and node.js), as well as knowledge of networking.
• Minimum 1 year exp. with Data heavy systems like Databricks and Data Ops.
• Having AL/ML Ops capabilities will be advantageous
• Experienced with security best practices and controls preferred.
• Prior experience working at a startup or in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process is preferred.
• Have an ergonomically correct and functional work-from-home workstation set up; amenable to a hybrid of working from home and in an office setting in the Denver Metro Area, Colorado

2+ years of technical leadership experience. i.e. experience leading team of DevOps engineers

Perks and benefits:

• Equity plan participation
• Medical and Personal Accident Insurance
• Support on Hybrid working Equipment, Connectivity, Relocation
• Flexible Time Off
• Continuous Learning
• Annual bonus, subject to company and individual performance