DevOps Team Lead - VAS

OpenTalent; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent seeks a DevOps Team Lead to own delivery, reliability, and day-to-day operation of our AWS cloud platform. The role blends hands-on engineering (60%) with technical leadership (40%), guiding infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and security controls across a multi-account AWS environment.

You'll translate product and engineering needs into concrete infrastructure, drive architectural decisions, coach the team, and ensure cost-conscious, observable, and incident-resilient platforms.

Qualifications

• Design, build, review, and operate IaC estate across a multi-account AWS environment.
• 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.

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.

Skills

IaC

CI/CD

AWS

Observability

Security

Incident Response

Cost Optimization

Leadership

Job description

The DevOps Team Lead owns the delivery, reliability, and day-to-day operation of our AWS cloud platform, an extensive multi-account cloud environment managed as code and expanding toward globally distributed, multi-region workloads.

This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role. You'll be one of the strongest technical contributors on the team while also helping shape and prioritize the work. You'll translate product and engineering needs into infrastructure requirements, guide the team's delivery, and ensure what we build is automated, secure, documented, cost-conscious, and operationally reliable.

The role is approximately 60% hands-on engineering and 40% technical leadership, including requirements, planning, review, coordination, and coaching.

What You'll Do

• 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. Rotation frequency will depend on team size and coverage needs but is shared equitably across the team.
• 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.