Lead DevOps Engineer — AWS, CI/CD & SRE

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Unlimited vacation days

Generous insurance coverage

401k with company match

Fun, collaborative culture

Job summary

Bluesight is building a scalable, high-availability platform for health systems and pharmaceutical customers. You will shape, build, and grow the infrastructure and developer experience, owning the scope, tooling, and on-call support while guiding the team's technical direction.

The ideal candidate has extensive AWS experience, IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and strong observability expertise.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in developer CI/CD tooling, site reliability or infra engineering.
• Proven design leadership and ability to communicate trade-offs.
• Design, build and operate scalable, fault-tolerant systems with cost awareness.
• Mentor engineers and lead teams; handle ambiguity with autonomy.
• Experience scoping/estimating technical work and preventing scope creep.
• Proficiency with Python, Java or Ruby; IaC pipelines and containers (Terraform, Helm, Docker, K8s).
• AWS-based SRE with strong observability (Datadog, Honeycomb, Sensu/New Relic).
• Linux system administration expertise.

Responsibilities

• Identify, plan and implement developer tooling and automation.
• Participate in on-call rotations and assist with diagnostics.
• Set technical direction for infra decisions and DevOps strategy.
• Scope and estimate infra projects; manage timelines and deliverables.
• Mentor team members and support technical growth.

Skills

DevOps tooling

Site reliability

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

System design

Mentoring

Autonomy

Project estimation

Python

Java

Ruby

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

AWS

Observability

Linux

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Job description

Bluesight is building a scalable, high-availability platform for health systems and pharmaceutical customers. You will shape, build, and grow the infrastructure and developer experience, owning the scope, tooling, and on-call support while guiding the team's technical direction.

The ideal candidate has extensive AWS experience, IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and strong observability expertise.