Lead DevOps Engineer

Accountabilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, setting technical direction, facilitating sprint planning, and driving delivery against quarterly objectives.

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure production infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, establishing consistent deployment standards and security controls across engineering teams.

• Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern, managed platforms and oversee the decommissioning of outdated systems.

• Define and advance the observability strategy, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call routing across services.

• Manage infrastructure networking and access controls, ensuring secure, well-documented, least-privilege access across environments.

• Integrate security throughout the DevOps lifecycle through vulnerability scanning, code and infrastructure analysis, and remediation workflows with clear service-level expectations.

• Establish and manage FinOps practices, optimizing cloud costs, right-sizing workloads, and reporting infrastructure spend to leadership.

• Act as the primary escalation point for infrastructure incidents, leading postmortems and ensuring preventive actions are implemented.

• Ensure infrastructure operations meet applicable healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements.

• Collaborate with engineering, security, and data teams to align infrastructure priorities with broader technical and business objectives.

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering, including experience mentoring or leading engineers.

• Deep, hands-on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure at scale, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and access management.

• Demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining automated build, testing, and deployment pipelines.

• Strong understanding of security practices and compliance frameworks, including vulnerability scanning, cloud security posture management, and audit logging.

• Experience implementing and managing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain production reliability.

• Ability to write code in at least one scripting or systems programming language and manage infrastructure through code.

• Strong technical leadership skills, with the ability to guide a team while remaining directly involved in engineering work.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to move between hands-on technical problem-solving, team leadership, and explaining infrastructure decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

• Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working in a regulated industry, particularly healthcare.

  • Familiarity with container orchestration technologies.

  • Experience using AI-driven automation for infrastructure management.

  • Relevant cloud platform certifications.

  Benefits:

  • Fully remote, remote-first work environment.

  • Approximately 5% travel, including potential trips to Boston, Massachusetts, for onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings or company events.

  • Annual base salary ranging from $150,000 to $185,000, depending on qualifications, experience, skills, and internal alignment.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

  • Life and disability insurance.

  • Employee Assistance Program.

  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.

  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.

  • Flexible time off and company holidays.

  • Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.

  • Pet insurance.

  • Bonus included as part of the total compensation package.