Lead DevOps Engineer

Aether Biomedical; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Sports compensation

Certification reimbursement

Training portal access

Referral program

Job summary

Andersen is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to modernize CI/CD and build a cloud-based software quality platform with public API exposure. You will own release processes, implement automated deployments, and drive security gates across 111 repositories.

You will work closely with development teams, lead a DevOps group, and enable zero-downtime migrations on AWS ECS Fargate. This role blends operations with client-facing product support and strategic automation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on AWS experience, DevOps/Platform engineering focus.
• Experience with ECS/Fargate, including deployment strategies and live migrations.
• Strong release engineering and production change experience, with zero-downtime deployments.
• Extensive GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and IAM/OIDC integration.
• Terraform/CloudFormation IaC within established architectures.
• Experience with observability platforms (New Relic, Datadog, Grafana).
• Experience integrating Snyk and SonarQube in CI/CD pipelines.
• OpenAPI tooling and docs-as-code pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain public API documentation pipeline (OpenAPI aggregation, validation, publishing).
• Integrate docs pipelines into GitHub Actions reusable workflows.
• Implement public status page with uptime monitoring via New Relic Synthetics.
• Manage monitoring as code with Terraform.
• Support live production changes and migrations on AWS ECS Fargate with minimal downtime.
• Own release engineering for client-facing deliverables and safe deployment strategies.
• Migrate CircleCI to GitHub Actions across repositories using reusable templates.
• Embed security/quality gates (Snyk, SonarQube) into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead DevOps team in collaboration with development groups.
• Deliver and support client-facing products, not purely internal infra.
• Own tasks end-to-end from problem definition to production release.

Skills

AWS

GitHub Actions

Release engineering

CI/CD

Terraform

New Relic

Snyk

SonarQube

OpenAPI tooling

English communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Stoplight Elements

ReadMe

New Relic

Datadog/Grafana

OpenAPI tooling

Snyk

Job description

Andersen is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer for a project modernizing CI/CD processes and enhancing a cloud-based software quality platform with scalable public API capabilities. The customer is a technology-driven software quality services provider that helps organizations improve the reliability, usability, and performance of their digital products. It combines quality engineering expertise, flexible delivery models, and technology-enabled services to support web, mobile, and other digital solutions across multiple industries. The company helps businesses accelerate software delivery, improve product quality, and enhance end-user experience through scalable testing and quality assurance services. The project is focused on preparing a cloud-based software quality platform for public API exposure by delivering a public API documentation portal and status page. It also includes modernizing CI/CD processes through migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions and integrating standardized reusable workflows across multiple repositories.

Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining the public API documentation pipeline, including OpenAPI specification aggregation, validation, bundling, and publishing with Stoplight Elements.
• Integrating documentation pipelines into GitHub Actions reusable workflows.
• Evaluating, recommending, and implementing a public status page using New Relic Synthetics as the uptime monitoring source, including component-level alert policies and incident workflows.
• Managing monitoring and alerting infrastructure as code using Terraform, following the client’s existing conventions and patterns.
• Supporting live production changes and migrations on AWS ECS Fargate, including service migrations, load balancer changes, and cluster-level changes with zero or minimal downtime.
• Owning release engineering for client-facing deliverables: design and manage safe, repeatable release processes (deployment strategies, health checks, automated rollback, release governance and change management).
• Contributing to the ongoing migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions across 111 repositories by integrating new pipelines into reusable workflow templates.
• Embeding security and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Snyk and SonarQube (SAST, dependency/vulnerability scanning, code quality) as part of the release process.
• Working closely with development teams and leading a dedicated DevOps team.
• The role is focused on delivering and supporting client-facing products rather than working exclusively on internal infrastructure.
• Taking ownership of tasks end-to-end: understand the problem, define the approach, implement the solution, and drive it through to production safely.
• Making independent technical decisions, communicating trade-offs clearly, and ensuring reliable execution in production environments.

Must-haves:

• Experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or a similar role, with strong hands-on experience in AWS for 7+ years.
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Amazon ECS/Fargate, including Service Connect, Graviton/multi-architecture builds, cluster design, ALB/NLB, target groups, and deployment strategies.
• Strong release engineering and production change experience, including live migrations, zero-downtime deployments, blue/green, canary and staged rollouts, health checks, automated rollback, blast-radius management, and release governance.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, composite actions, and OIDC/IAM integration.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, including working within established IaC architectures, conventions, and patterns.
• Experience with New Relic (Synthetics, alert policies, APIs/webhooks, NerdGraph) or comparable observability platforms such as Datadog or Grafana.
• Experience integrating Snyk and SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines for SAST, dependency/vulnerability scanning, and quality gates.
• Experience with OpenAPI tooling and docs-as-code pipelines.
• Strong senior-level ownership and autonomy, with the ability to take tasks from problem definition through production deployment with minimal supervision and work responsibly with elevated production access.
• Strong technical judgment and communication skills, including the ability to assess risks, evaluate trade-offs, and make well-founded recommendations with incomplete information.
• Kubernetes experience is not required; the platform is primarily based on ECS/Fargate.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with API documentation and developer portal tools such as Stoplight Elements or ReadMe.
• Experience with status-page platforms such as Atlassian Statuspage or Better Stack.
• Hands-on experience migrating CI/CD pipelines from CircleCI to GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as CloudFormation and SAM.
• Mature experience with AI-assisted development workflows, including the ability to critically review, verify, and validate AI-generated output and explain the resulting implementation and technical decisions to the team.

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you:

Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc.. The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.

Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.

Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.

The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 EUR per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.

Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.

Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).

Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).

Referral program.

Private health insurance and sports compensation, depending on the type of employment.

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