Lead Devops Engineer

Nisum; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience in DevOps and infrastructure engineering. The role involves architecting CI/CD pipelines, ensuring compliance, and mentoring engineers. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment, focusing on operational excellence and security best practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Proven success with CI/CD workflows using Jenkins, CircleCI, and ArgoCD.

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines using various tools.
• Build and maintain scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability

Infrastructure Engineering

Communication

Programming

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Jenkins

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Terraform

Grafana

Dynatrace

Job description

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• Architect and manage secure and compliant CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and Octopus Deploy.
• Design and implement GitOps-based continuous deployment workflows leveraging ArgoCD.
• Build and maintain scalable, high-availability infrastructure using Kubernetes in cloud-native environments (EKS).
• Ensure systems adhere to industry regulations (e.g., SOC2, PCI DSS) and security best practices.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams to embed DevSecOps principles across the SDLC.
• Mentor and guide DevOps engineers and champion a culture of operational excellence.
• Continuously evaluate and improve tooling, observability, and deployment reliability.
• Establish SLAs/SLOs and develop processes for reliability engineering and incident response.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and manage secure and compliant CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and Octopus Deploy.
• Design and implement GitOps-based continuous deployment workflows leveraging ArgoCD.
• Build and maintain scalable, high-availability infrastructure using Kubernetes in cloud-native environments (EKS).
• Ensure systems adhere to industry regulations (e.g., SOC2, PCI DSS) and security best practices.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams to embed DevSecOps principles across the SDLC.
• Mentor and guide DevOps engineers and champion a culture of operational excellence.
• Continuously evaluate and improve tooling, observability, and deployment reliability.
• Establish SLAs/SLOs and develop processes for reliability engineering and incident response.

What You Know

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Proven success building and managing DevOps workflows using Jenkins, CircleCI, Octopus Deploy, and ArgoCD.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes in production, including Helm, RBAC, and network policy.
• Experience in administration of enterprise GitHub for source control, including managing organizations, settings, and policies.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Helm), cloud platforms (AWS), and secure configuration management.
• Solid understanding of compliance frameworks relevant to fintech (e.g., SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS).
• Strong programming/scripting skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Go, Typescript, Node, C#).
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Dynatrace).
• Experience designing secure, scalable systems with strong operational controls.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working in cross-functional teams.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

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