Lead, Cloud Operations Engineering

MongoDB; Dublin (CA); Hybrid; USD 137,017 - 216,943; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Lead Cloud Operations Engineer based in Dublin to guide a high‑performing team responsible for internal tooling, automation, and production reliability. You will work closely with COE Management to drive performance, ensure timely delivery, and elevate customer uptime across Atlas infrastructure.

The role emphasizes strong leadership, deep technical depth, and a passion for building scalable systems, with hybrid work in Dublin and collaboration across Product, Technical

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in small to mid sized engineering teams
• Strong diagnostic/troubleshooting in production environments
• Experience supervising software development projects
• Excellent communication skills
• On-call DevOps/SRE/Cloud Operations experience
• Strong Linux and networking knowledge
• Familiar with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Ability to script/write programs to solve problems
• CS/CE degree or equivalent, plus 2+ of Java/Go/Python/Typescript

Responsibilities

• Lead Cloud Operations Engineering team and collaborate with management
• Guide project deliverables and maintain high quality outcomes
• Overlap with incident and project management for resilience
• Coordinate with Product, Technical Services and R&D
• Ensure uptime guarantees for Atlas customer base
• Design and deploy scalable monitoring and automation
• Identify opportunities to automate and optimize workflows
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation

Skills

Team leadership

Diagnostic troubleshooting

On-call experience

Communication skills

Scripting/Programming

Problem solving under pressure

CS/CE degree or equivalent

Java/Go/Python/Typescript

Education

CS/CE degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Linux system administration

Networking

AWS

GCP

Azure

Monitoring tools

Job description

Cloud Operations Engineers are responsible for building internal tools and process automation. Day‑to‑day duties are creating and monitoring systems alert dashboards, reviewing critical event and system logs, accessing customer instances that underpin their production databases, and performing server administration duties including performance troubleshooting. Applicants must be critical thinkers who are quick to detect, resolve, or escalte issues that are sometimes broad in scope and difficult to trace.

We are looking for a Lead with strong technical leadership experience as well as technical depth who is looking to collaborate closely with Cloud Operations Engineering Management in building and maintaining a high‑performing team that delivers high quality outcomes while fostering psychological safety and professional growth.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Core responsibilities

• Team leadership: partner with and assist COE Management with the tasks of providing ongoing technical feedback to engineers, support their growth and creating an inclusive team environment
• Execution and delivery: play a key role in guiding team members through project deliverables ensuring high quality outcomes while also assisting in meeting or resetting timelines when required
• Time management: between assisting team members with day to day tasks ranging from incident to project management
• Cross‑functional collaboration: work closely with Product, Technical Services and R&D to surface team’s pain points and drive alignment with the goal of providing an excellent user experience to the end customer
• Coordinate with Lead counterparts within Cloud Operations as well as Technical Services to ensure our uptime guarantees to the MongoDB Atlas customer base
• Assist and collaborate with the team on scoping, designing, deploying and ongoing maintenance of systems that focus on reducing mean time to resolve customer incidents
• Detect opportunities for streamlining the team’s day to day work by introducing and implementing opportunities for automation or time saving tooling
• Coordinate and participate in weekly on‑call rotation, where you will handle short term customer incidents

Requirements

• Strong leadership skills, with hands‑on experience in similar roles working in small to mid sized Engineering Teams in a rapid‑growth environment
• Strong diagnostic/troubleshooting process, with significant experience troubleshooting end‑to‑end technical issues in production environments
• Experience supervising, leading and monitoring progress of Software Development projects
• Patience, empathy, and a genuine desire to help others
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and find solutions to challenges in real‑time
• Experience with being an oncall DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Operations engineer
• Expertise with Linux system administration and networking technologies
• Knowledge of database and distributed system operations and concepts
• Knowledgeable about a wide range of web and internet technologies
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services and other Cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure)
• Experience in monitoring, system performance data collection and analysis, and reporting
• Capability to write programs/scripts to solve both short‑term systems problems and long term strategic objectives for the Atlas product
• A CS/CE degree or equivalent experienceAt least 2 of the following programming languages: Java, Go, Python, Typescript
• A keen interest in learning new skills and competencies

Expectations and success profile:

• Deliver strong results through the team, not just through individual output
• Raise the team’s performance and efficacy while coaching and working alongside the team members
• Create clarity in ambiguous situations while also keeping stakeholders aligned
• Partner with the Cloud Operations Engineering regional Manager in ensuring operational minimums are met, high technical quality is maintained and the team operates within realistic and reasonable workload parameters

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.