Lead DevOps Engineer

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance of DevOps processes and infrastructure while leading a team to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of systems and applications.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes
• Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Experience with AWS is a plus
• Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications
• Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability
• Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support

Requirements:

• At least 7 years of experience in a DevOps role, with 2 years in a leadership position
• Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent)
• Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents
• Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent)
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Experience with AWS is a plus