Job Description
Job DescriptionDevOps Tech Pod Leader
100% Remote | U.S.-Based (Eastern or Central Time Zones Preferred)
We’re hiring a DevOps Tech Pod Leader to lead complex, production-grade cloud environments for enterprise technology customers. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who enjoys autonomy, client collaboration, and building highly reliable systems at scale.
You’ll lead a small pod of engineers while working directly with clients to design, operate, and continuously improve modern DevOps platforms. If you enjoy ownership, variety, and real-world impact, this role is built for you.
What You’ll Do
- Own delivery and execution for your DevOps Tech Pod
- Partner directly with clients on scope, priorities, and outcomes
- Lead and mentor engineers technically and professionally
- Design, operate, and scale cloud-native environments on AWS
- Architect and run multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms (EKS)
- Build automation to improve reliability, performance, and speed
- Lead production migrations using blue-green and progressive delivery patterns
- Implement new tools and improve existing platforms as requirements evolve
- Participate in client-facing and internal scrums
- Support live production systems with a focus on continuous improvement
What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, CloudOps, or SRE roles
- 3+ years of team leadership and client-facing experience
- Strong Linux fundamentals
- Proficiency in one or more: Golang, Python, Ruby, Bash, TypeScript, or Rust
- Deep hands-on AWS experience in highly available environments
- Production experience with Amazon EKS (multi-tenant, RBAC, namespaces)
- GitOps experience with ArgoCD (federated preferred)
- Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes integrations
- Experience migrating production workloads with minimal downtime
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform + Atlantis and/or CloudFormation)
- Monitoring experience (Datadog, Splunk, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana)
- Experience with Docker, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, or DynamoDB), and MySQL/Postgres
Nice to Have
- Progressive delivery tooling (Argo Rollouts, canary, blue-green)
- FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience
- Large-scale platform migrations or consolidations
- GCP or Azure exposure
- Industry certifications (AWS, HashiCorp, Red Hat, etc.)
Why This Role
- 100% remote (remote-first since day one)
- Unlimited PTO
- Equity opportunities
- 401(k) with company contribution
- Company-sponsored healthcare
- Competitive compensation
- Ongoing training and certification support