DevOps Team Lead

Octopus Deploy; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a DevOps Team Lead to spearhead a talented group of engineers. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes and GitOps, significantly impacting the delivery lifecycle of a high-scale SaaS platform. You'll be responsible for managing a dedicated team, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering a collaborative environment that encourages professional growth. Join a forward-thinking company that values transparency and innovation, where your contributions will help shape the future of DevOps solutions for thousands of developers worldwide.

Benefits

Professional Growth Opportunities

Collaborative Environment

Cutting-Edge Technology

Impactful Work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps and cloud technologies.
• 2+ years of experience as a team lead with strong troubleshooting skills.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day work of the DevOps team, ensuring smooth operations.
• Design and implement best practices for online services and monitoring.
• Drive the professional growth of a motivated team in a dynamic environment.

Skills

DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud Technologies

Troubleshooting Skills

GitOps Principles

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Programming in Bash

Python

Golang

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Crossplane

MongoDB

Job description

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery, empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4,000 organizations globally – including Ubisoft, ASOS, Xero, monday.com, Stack Overflow, NASA, and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions.

Founded in Australia in 2012, our team of over 300 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable, balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 30–50% every year for the past 8 years, and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years. In 2024, Octopus Deploy acquired Codefresh, Argo maintainers, and the leaders in enterprise GitOps. Octopus now provides the industry's most comprehensive Continuous Delivery solution for organizations operating at scale.

We work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same, with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive, collaborative, and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s.

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Team Lead to lead a team of talented DevOps engineers working on a cutting-edge product in the DevOps domain. This team plays a critical role in enhancing and maintaining a high-scale SaaS platform, streamlining the delivery lifecycle for multiple products, improving developer experience, and advancing monitoring capabilities.

As part of a company deeply rooted in Kubernetes and GitOps, the DevOps team not only provides expertise in these areas but is also integral to shaping the direction of our product. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic, high-growth environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing all aspects of the team's day-to-day work, planning, and prioritizing tasks and agendas while working closely with development teams, support engineers, and R&D leadership.
• Leveraging a highly technical background to take on complex tasks as needed.
• Ensuring the availability and smooth, cost-efficient operation of our production environment, including leading efficient incident response.
• Maintaining and improving the release lifecycle for various products, ensuring frequent and reliable delivery.
• Designing and embedding industry best practices for online services, including disaster recovery, business continuity, and service health measurement.
• Providing development teams with platforms and tools that streamline their work and increase productivity.
• Establishing a robust and reliable monitoring framework for complex distributed systems.
• Driving the professional growth and development of a highly motivated team.
• Constantly learning and exploring the cutting edge of DevOps tools and practices, and leading their implementation.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with DevOps and cloud technologies.
• 2+ years of experience as a team lead.
• Possess exceptional troubleshooting skills and diagnostic intuition for solving challenging problems.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes (both operational and deployment) and Docker.
• High familiarity with public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, and Azure); proven expertise with more than one is a significant advantage.
• Familiarity with continuous monitoring solutions, including Prometheus, Grafana stack (Loki, Mimir, Pyroscope), and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with event-driven microservices and event buses such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of deployment models, capacity management, and service utilization.
• Expertise in the design, architecture, and operation of complex, large-scale online services.
• Programming and scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or Golang.
• Familiarity with GitOps principles is a must; strong experience with one or more Argo projects is a plus.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling like Terraform; experience with Crossplane is an advantage.
• Experience working with databases (e.g., NoSQL, MongoDB) and a strong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional, global, and remote teams from diverse backgrounds.

Why Join Us?

• Cutting-Edge Technology: Be part of a company that lives and breathes Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native technologies, working on innovative solutions at scale.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a supportive and highly skilled team, where your expertise and ideas will shape the future of our product.
• Professional Growth: Enjoy opportunities for continuous learning, growth, and staying ahead in the fast-evolving DevOps ecosystem.
• Impactful Work: Contribute to building and maintaining a platform that supports thousands of developers worldwide, making a real difference in the industry.