Lead DevOps Engineer (with App Dev)

Mindlance is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to strengthen and mature their cross-platform build and DevOps capabilities within an enterprise engineering environment. This hands-on leadership role involves leading platform engineering efforts, improving CI/CD reliability, and establishing standardized DevOps practices across the team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Windows, Mac and Chromebook platform build engineering, ensuring reliable, scalable, repeatable builds
• Assess and improve web module bundler configurations, build tooling, and monorepo (NX) workflows
• Evaluate and optimize (or replace) Electron-based desktop build architecture
• Own and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, and related tooling
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions (CloudFormation, CDK)
• Improve dependency management, vulnerability remediation strategies, and release governance
• Establish and document standardized Git branching strategies and DevOps best practices
• Troubleshoot build, deployment, and infrastructure issues in real time as an escalation point
• Partner closely with developers, QA, and business stakeholders to improve delivery cohesion
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers in DevOps principles, build engineering, and automation practices
• Drive measurable improvements in build time, build reliability, and deployment confidence

Requirements:

• AI - Generative AI
• Automation - Unit Testing
• AWS - Dynamo AWS - Lambda AWS - S3 AWS - SNS/SQS AWS - CloudFormation AWS - CloudWatch AWS - CloudFront AWS - EC2
• CICD - GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline
• IaC - CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK
• Support - Pager Duty
• Web - JavaScript (ES6)/HTML/CSS
• Windows - C++
• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive
• Solid experience with web technologies, JavaScript/HTML/CSS
• Experience supporting desktop and web application build pipelines
• Independent, proactive, and able to deliver high-quality code
• Ability to mentor and influence engineers without formal authority
• Strong documentation habits and process standardization experience
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, build engineering, or platform engineering
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK)
• Experience improving dependency management and vulnerability remediation processes
• Strong cross-functional communication with business, development, and QA stakeholders
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, etc.)
• Strong web component bundler expertise, including assessing, refactoring, and explaining configuration changes
• Strong hands-on experience with Windows build environments and Windows OS-level considerations
• Strong AWS experience (Cloud*, Code*, Dynamo, EC2, ECR, ECS, IAM, Lambda, Route53, S3, VPC, etc.)
• AI - Agentic AI
• Automation - E2E Testing Automation - Integration Testing Automation - API Testing Automation - Browser Testing Automation - Contract Testing
• AWS - ECR AWS - IAM AWS - Route53 AWS - VPC
• Monorepo - NX (or other monorepo build tools)