DevOps Engineer Team Lead

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

Job summary

Frontline Education is seeking a DevOps Engineer/Team Lead to guide a team in Wayne, PA with remote or hybrid options. You will shape infrastructure strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and secure, scalable deployments across environments.

The role collaborates with Security, SRE, and Development teams to build future-ready frameworks and standards for infrastructure, deployment, and security. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling and cloud development patterns.
• Strong understanding of security tenets and practices.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and Blue/Green deployments.
• Experience with feature flag frameworks and phased rollouts.
• Analytical thinker who can propose creative solutions.
• Able to collaborate across teams including Security, SRE and Development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Guide a team of onshore engineers and analysts in development activities.
• Construct and deliver performance reviews to direct reports according to cadence.
• Apprise manager regarding team-related status, needs, challenges, etc.
• Cultivate positive relationships with direct reports.
• Analyze current technology and develop steps to improve and expand them.
• Assist other engineers in proposing solutions and demonstrations.
• Provide clear project goals and oversee timely execution.
• Maintain hardware and software for projects with development teams.
• Participate in continuous feedback with DevOps and enterprise architecture teams.
• Work with development teams to engineer infrastructure solutions and CI/CD pipelines.
• evangelize cutting-edge, sustainable automation for multi-environment deployments.

Skills

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Security principles

Infrastructure as code

Blue/Green deployments

Feature flags

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Job description

Overview

Remote or Hybrid to Wayne, PA

The DevOps Engineer/Team Lead works with various areas of the business to collaborate on an infrastructure strategy that is secure, scalable, high performance and aligned with the goal of continuous integration and continuous deployment. Additionally, this team member is responsible for helping build the standards for infrastructure, deployment, and security implementations with a keen eye toward the future state of technology and the industry. This team member works closely with the Security team, the SRE team, and Development team to build the frameworks that will take our technology into the future. This team member is future-focused, capable of moving quickly and taking risks, and challenging the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Guide a team of onshore engineers and analysts in development activities
• Construct and deliver performance reviews to direct reports according to prescribed cadence
• Apprise manager regarding team-related status, needs, challenges, etc.
• Cultivate and foster positive relationships with direct reports
• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them
• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team
• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution
• Work closely with development teams within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently
• Participate in a constant feedback loop among the community of DevOps engineering and enterprise architecture teams
• Work with software development teams to engineer and implement infrastructure solutions, including infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Provide evangelism for cutting-edge, sustainable automation in continuously integrating and deploying to multiple environments

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• Knowledge of tools, applications and architectural patterns associated with CI/CD and cloud development
• Strong understanding of security tenets
• Experience with infrastructure as code, Blue/Green deployments, and Feature Flag Frameworks
• Ability to think analytically and advocate for creative solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively with members of other teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations
• Delivery experience as a software engineer for on-premises or cloud applications
• Experience in policy/standard creation and acceptance

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