Lead DevOps Engineer
EverOps · Full-time · Posted 6d ago
Some of the world’s most innovative global software and technology companies struggle to find engineering partners capable of stepping into complex environments and immediately driving meaningful outcomes. These teams need more than additional hands—they need senior engineers who can quickly understand an environment, identify the path forward, and execute without constant direction.
Enter EverOps – the premier Embedded Service Provider. We partner directly with customer engineering teams to assess and address mission-critical infrastructure, cloud, security, and delivery challenges.
EverOps is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with deep AWS infrastructure experience, exceptional cloud networking expertise, and a proven ability to establish and scale mature infrastructure engineering practices.
This role will be responsible for helping build and lead the engineering capability supporting customer deployments across new and existing AWS environments. You'll establish the infrastructure foundations, security standards, deployment patterns, and operational practices necessary to deliver reliable, repeatable, and scalable customer infrastructure.
You'll operate within a business-critical environment where ensuring operational stability, strengthening security practices, reducing technical debt, and establishing scalable engineering standards are essential. The infrastructure spans AWS, networking, application platforms, databases, and production operations, requiring someone who can evaluate the broader technical landscape and identify practical opportunities for improvement.
Success requires more than hands-on technical expertise. You'll need to evaluate existing engineering practices, establish standards, mentor engineers, and build processes that enable a growing team to operate effectively while maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and operational excellence.
This role requires someone who can quickly assess unfamiliar environments, work through ambiguity, and independently translate business and technical objectives into actionable engineering deliverables.
As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will join our U.S.-Based Virtual Operating Center and embed directly with a customer engineering team.
Your primary focus will be building and maturing the infrastructure engineering capability responsible for supporting customer deployments across AWS environments. You'll provide hands-on technical leadership in designing, provisioning, securing, and operating cloud infrastructure while establishing the processes, standards, and engineering practices needed to scale delivery.
You'll work closely with application engineers, security teams, networking teams, and customer stakeholders to ensure infrastructure is deployment-ready, operationally supportable, and aligned with AWS architectural and security best practices.
Your responsibilities will include multi-account AWS architecture, cloud networking, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, security hardening, disaster recovery, and production readiness. You'll also support ongoing infrastructure migrations and modernization efforts, ensuring changes are implemented safely and aligned with established engineering standards.
As the engineering function grows, you'll help establish team responsibilities, technical standards, delivery processes, and operational expectations while mentoring engineers and driving continuous improvement.
This is a highly autonomous, hands-on technical leadership role. You'll be expected to identify what needs improvement, prioritize work based on operational risk and business impact, define actionable technical deliverables, and drive initiatives through completion without requiring step-by-step direction.
Team Development: Help build and develop an infrastructure engineering team, establishing technical expectations, mentoring engineers, and creating repeatable processes that support consistent, high-quality delivery.
AWS Account Architecture: Design, provision, and maintain secure, scalable AWS account structures, landing zones, networking foundations, access controls, and infrastructure provisioning workflows.
Deployment Enablement: Partner with application and customer engineering teams to provision, configure, and maintain infrastructure supporting customer deployments across new and existing AWS accounts.
Infrastructure Standardization: Develop reusable Terraform modules, infrastructure templates, deployment patterns, and engineering standards that improve consistency, security, and delivery efficiency.
Operational Maturity: Assess existing DevOps practices, infrastructure management, operational procedures, and engineering workflows to identify gaps, reduce technical debt, and implement practical improvements aligned with industry best practices.
Cloud Security: Evaluate and improve cloud security posture through infrastructure hardening, least-privilege access, IAM best practices, network segmentation, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and secure infrastructure configurations.
Cloud Migration: Provide hands-on engineering support for the migration and modernization of production workloads from legacy hosted infrastructure into AWS.
Network Engineering: Diagnose and resolve complex connectivity, routing, DNS, firewall, VPN, load-balancing, security-group, and hybrid-networking issues impacting customer deployments, infrastructure migrations, and production systems.
Migration Planning: Assess undocumented or partially documented environments, identify dependencies and blockers, and translate findings into practical migration plans and technical workstreams.
AWS Infrastructure: Design, build, troubleshoot, secure, and improve production AWS environments using modern infrastructure-as-code practices and established architectural standards.
Legacy Modernization: Identify and remediate risks associated with legacy infrastructure and operating systems, supporting migrations to modern, secure, and maintainable platforms.
Platform Engineering: Implement and improve CI/CD, monitoring, observability, secrets management, configuration management, and deployment automation.
Disaster Recovery: Design and implement AWS-based disaster recovery capabilities, including infrastructure, replication dependencies, recovery procedures, and operational runbooks.
Operational Readiness: Establish and maintain standards for infrastructure monitoring, deployment validation, change management, incident response, production support, and ongoing operational reliability.
Production Cutovers: Support migration rehearsals, rollback planning, production cutovers, validation, and post-migration stabilization.
Technical Ownership: Independently define and execute technical deliverables, surface risks early, and drive issues to resolution.
Documentation: Produce useful architecture documentation, infrastructure standards, migration plans, operational runbooks, dependency maps, and knowledge-transfer materials.
Technical Leadership: Serve as a senior technical partner to customer engineers and EverOps team members, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and direction when ambiguity or complex infrastructure decisions arise.
Experience: 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related discipline, with significant production AWS experience.
AWS Expertise: Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, securing, troubleshooting, and improving production workloads and infrastructure in AWS.
Networking Depth: Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, subnetting, DNS, NAT, firewalls, VPNs, proxies, load balancers, security groups, network ACLs, and AWS networking services.
AWS Networking: Production experience with VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints, VPN connectivity, and multi-account or hybrid-network environments.
Multi-Account AWS Architecture: Experience designing and operating multi-account AWS environments, including AWS Organizations, account provisioning, cross-account access, centralized networking, and security governance.
Infrastructure Delivery: Experience building and maintaining infrastructure platforms that support repeatable application and customer deployments across multiple environments.
Engineering Leadership: Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, establishing engineering standards, and coordinating infrastructure delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Platform Architecture: Ability to define reusable infrastructure patterns, automate environment provisioning, and establish secure, scalable deployment practices across AWS environments.
Operational Best Practices: Demonstrated experience evaluating and improving DevOps maturity, including infrastructure standardization, deployment practices, operational readiness, change management, incident response, and production reliability.
Cloud Security: Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, IAM, least-privilege access, network security, encryption, secrets management, infrastructure hardening, and secure configuration management.
Migration Experience: Experience supporting data-center, hosted-infrastructure, lift-and-shift, re-platforming, or cloud-modernization migrations involving live production workloads.
Infrastructure as Code: Advanced proficiency with Terraform and experience managing production infrastructure through version-controlled IaC.
Linux: Strong Linux systems administration, security hardening, and troubleshooting skills, including experience maintaining and modernizing production environments.
Containers: Production experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
CI/CD: Experience designing, securing, and operating modern CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar platforms.
Observability: Experience implementing and improving monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational visibility using platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or comparable tooling.
Automation: Strong scripting ability using Python, Bash, or similar languages to automate infrastructure, security, and operational workflows.
Production Operations: Experience supporting business-critical production environments where uptime, security, change control, incident response, and operational discipline matter.
Autonomy: Demonstrated ability to enter an unfamiliar environment, independently assess its current state, identify priorities, define a path forward, and execute with minimal supervision.
Communication: Ability to clearly explain technical risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineers, technical leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Fintech / Payments: Experience working in payments, financial services, banking, or another highly regulated, high-transaction environment.
Cloud Security & Compliance: Experience implementing security controls and operational practices aligned with PCI DSS, SOC 2, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, or similar frameworks.
AWS Security Services: Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, CloudTrail, Inspector, or similar cloud governance and security services.
Operational Maturity Assessments: Experience conducting infrastructure, DevOps, or security maturity assessments and translating findings into prioritized engineering roadmaps.
Team Building: Experience helping establish or scale infrastructure engineering teams, including defining responsibilities, developing engineering practices, mentoring team members, and improving delivery capacity.
Migration Leadership: Experience owning end-to-end infrastructure migrations, including discovery, dependency mapping, rehearsal, cutover, rollback, and stabilization.
Disaster Recovery: Hands-on experience designing and implementing AWS DR environments, replication strategies, recovery runbooks, and RTO/RPO objectives.
Database Infrastructure: Familiarity with infrastructure supporting Aurora/MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, or other distributed data platforms.
GitOps: Experience with GitOps and pull-request-driven infrastructure workflows using tools such as Atlantis, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, Scalr, or Argo CD.
Platform Engineering: Experience building internal platforms that standardize deployment, observability, secrets management, and infrastructure consumption.
FinOps: Experience improving cloud cost visibility, resource utilization, infrastructure efficiency, and cost optimization without compromising security or reliability.
AI-Driven Engineering: Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to improve infrastructure troubleshooting, automation, operational efficiency, and engineering delivery.
Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CKA, or similar advanced certifications.
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401K with company contribution and sponsored healthcare.
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