AWS DevOps Lead — Cloud Platform & Automation

OpenTalent; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent seeks a DevOps Team Lead to own delivery and reliability of our AWS cloud platform. The role blends hands-on engineering (about 60%) with technical leadership (about 40%), translating product needs into infrastructure requirements and guiding the team through planning, reviews, and sprint ceremonies.

You will design, build, and operate IaC, manage CI/CD for infrastructure changes, and drive standards for security, IAM, and cost controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, review, and operate our Infrastructure-as-Code estate across a multi-account AWS environment, including reusable modules, environment configurations, state management, and account provisioning.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes, including automated validation, security and compliance controls, and keyless cloud authentication.
• Build and maintain the core AWS services supporting our products, including networking, containers, databases, storage, messaging, systems management, backup, monitoring, and cost controls.
• Establish and reinforce practical engineering standards around IaC, IAM, resource tagging, state management, versioning, security, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Translate ambiguous requests from product, engineering, security, and data teams into clear requirements, milestones, estimates, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Own and refine the DevOps backlog and facilitate the team\'s Scrum cadence, including planning, stand‑ups, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Strengthen platform reliability through observability, SLOs, actionable alerting, runbooks, disaster recovery, backup and restore practices, and continuous reduction of operational toil.
• Participate in a rotating night and weekend on‑call schedule and provide technical leadership during platform incidents, including incident coordination and post‑incident follow‑through.
• Partner with security to embed identity, least‑privilege access, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, audit logging, and compliance requirements into the platform.
• Lead cloud cost visibility and optimization, including tagging, right‑sizing, commitment planning, anomaly response, and the cost implications of multi‑region architecture.
• Help evolve the platform toward globally distributed workloads, including regional rollout, data residency and replication, latency‑aware routing, cross‑region failover, and associated operational tradeoffs.

Job description

OpenTalent seeks a DevOps Team Lead to own delivery and reliability of our AWS cloud platform. The role blends hands-on engineering (about 60%) with technical leadership (about 40%), translating product needs into infrastructure requirements and guiding the team through planning, reviews, and sprint ceremonies.

You will design, build, and operate IaC, manage CI/CD for infrastructure changes, and drive standards for security, IAM, and cost controls.