DevOps Team Lead

Skills

About the Role

You will own and operate the cloud platform on AWS, architecting, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will automate deployments, harden security, manage backups and disaster recovery, tune RDS databases, and maintain monitoring and alerting. You will lead a small DevOps team, provide technical direction, perform on-call incident response, run post-incident reviews, and continuously optimize cost, performance, and reliability.

Requirements

• 8+ years in DevOps roles
• Deep hands-on AWS experience including EC2 ECS RDS VPC IAM CloudWatch Lambda S3 ALB NLB
• Production experience with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong experience with Docker and container management tools such as ECS Portainer Coolify
• Expertise building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines GitHub Actions)
• Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash Python and/or Node.js
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP DNS VPNs firewalls CDN and secure access solutions
• Experience with RDS PostgreSQL performance tuning backup and recovery
• Professional-level English written and verbal communication
• Proficiency with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code Cursor or GitHub Copilot
• Preferred: AWS certifications (Solutions Architect DevOps Engineer)
• Preferred: Experience in regulated industries such as Fintech Blockchain or Financial Services
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Design implement and maintain high-performance secure highly available AWS infrastructure
• Build and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Act as SME for networking VPCs security groups load balancers and inter-service communication
• Manage CDN DNS and secure network access with Cloudflare WARP and Tailscale
• Architect and implement business continuity and disaster recovery solutions
• Optimize AWS costs through right-sizing reserved instances and lifecycle management
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines ensuring reliable build test and deployment workflows
• Develop automation scripts and tools using Bash Python or Node.js
• Implement and maintain container orchestration with Docker ECS Portainer and Coolify
• Integrate automated security scanning into CI/CD and enforce IAM and secrets management best practices
• Manage RDS database performance including tuning indexing and backup recovery
• Perform OS-level administration security patching and system hardening
• Design and maintain monitoring observability using CloudWatch Prometheus and Grafana
• Define and enforce SLAs SLOs and run incident response and post-incident reviews
• Lead and coordinate the DevOps team provide technical direction and code reviews
• Maintain infrastructure documentation runbooks and architectural decision records