FinTech DevOps Lead - Hands-on Manager

Aplazo; Mexico; On-site; PHP 7,500,000 - 11,250,000; Full time

Job summary

Aplazo is seeking a DevOps Tech Lead Manager to head our DevOps squad, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure core infrastructure. This first-line management role combines leadership with hands-on engineering about 40–60% of time, removing blockers and aligning day-to-day work with business impact.

You will guide 4–8 engineers, own delivery, code quality, and on-call, while coaching career growth, handling performance reviews, and driving accountable, high-performing teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering with production ownership.
• Prior experience leading a team formally (as a manager) or informally (as a tech lead) — hiring, mentoring, or running incident response for others
• Track record of owning delivery for a team, not just individual tickets
• Comfort operating as a working manager: 40–60% hands-on IC work alongside people management

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a squad of 4–8 DevOps engineers (E1 through E3).
• Own squad delivery commitments, code/infra quality, and on-call rotation.
• Stay hands-on with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability work alongside your team.
• Run 1:1s, write performance reviews, and coach career growth for reports.
• Hire and onboard new engineers into the squad.
• Own squad-level incidents and post-mortems; escalate proactively when needed.
• Tie the squad's work to business OKRs/KPIs and participate in planning and cross-team syncs.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Hands-on engineering

People management

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Observability (Datadog)

AWS (Fargate, ECS, EC2, RDS/Postgres,)

Cloud cost optimization

Python/Bash/Node.js scripting

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Datadog

AWS

Job description

Aplazo is seeking a DevOps Tech Lead Manager to head our DevOps squad, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure core infrastructure. This first-line management role combines leadership with hands-on engineering about 40–60% of time, removing blockers and aligning day-to-day work with business impact.

You will guide 4–8 engineers, own delivery, code quality, and on-call, while coaching career growth, handling performance reviews, and driving accountable, high-performing teams.