Lead DevOps Engineer

• Establish and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and setup, and make sure that all systems and services follow best practices for security and compliance
• Develop internal platforms and services in close collaboration with development teams to allow for efficiency and self-service for those teams
• Establish partnerships with groups like the operations, legal, and financial teams
• Work cross-functionally to identify risks and assist in implementing solutions that safeguard clients' and the company's information
• To meet SLAs, make sure the SaaS services and related infrastructure continue to operate at the necessary levels of security, availability, reliability, scalability, and performance
• Proactively report, debug, and resolve issues by working on developing incident management, operational monitoring, and alerting capabilities
• Examine, fix, and promote engineering and build automation process improvements
• Support and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the CI/CD, automated testing, and release technologies
• Perform threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, and study of mitigation solutions as part of security risk assessment
• Own vendor management for both current and upcoming vendors that the team uses
• Participate in recurring on-call shifts for infrastructure and services that the team owns

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor s/Master s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a DevOps Engineer
• 2+ years of Lead-related experience, including the ability to plan, organize, and complete large-scale, complicated cross-team initiatives
• Prior knowledge of cloud infrastructure security and vulnerability (prevention, detection, and remedy)
• Extensive AWS infrastructure building and maintenance expertise, including EC2, ELB, ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch, etc.
• Track record of successfully managing and delivering infrastructure using Terraform, CDK, and CloudFormation
• Extensive knowledge of a variety of programming languages, including Shell, Python, Ruby, and Golang
• Strong knowledge of pipeline software, including GitHub and Artifactory
• An attitude of diligence and a strong sense of accountability
• Great verbal and written communication, documentation, and teamwork abilities
• Demonstrable experience working with a team to create and improve fantastic platforms and services
• In-depth knowledge of SOC2, SOX, and FERPA compliance
• Strong management, security, and scaling experience in regard to Kubernetes
• Excellent English communication skills