Lead DevOps Engineer — AWS, Terraform & IaC

VAS; Madison (WI); Vor Ort; USD 140.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

VAS is seeking a DevOps Team Lead to own delivery, reliability, and operations for a broad AWS cloud platform. The role blends hands-on engineering (about 60%) with technical leadership (about 40%), translating product needs into infrastructure, guiding delivery, and ensuring automation, security, and cost-awareness.

You will design and manage IaC, CI/CD, and core AWS services, while setting standards, leading Scrum ceremonies, and coordinating incident response and platform improvements.

Qualifikationen

• Senior/technical lead with experience operating in complex cloud environments.
• Current hands-on experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code.
• Deep AWS experience across multi-account environments.
• Proven ownership of infrastructure CI/CD pipelines with automated policy and security controls.
• Strong Agile/Scrum leadership and backlog ownership.
• Excellent scripting and automation skills.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, review, and operate IaC across a multi-account AWS environment.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes with security controls.
• Build and maintain core AWS services supporting products (networking, containers, storage, databases, monitoring).
• Establish engineering standards around IaC, IAM, tagging, and security.
• Translate requests into clear requirements, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Own DevOps backlog and guide Scrum ceremonies.
• Enhance platform reliability with observability, SLOs, and runbooks.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response leadership.
• Collaborate with security on least privilege, encryption, and audits.
• Lead cloud cost visibility, tagging, and multi-region cost analysis.
• Guide platform evolution to global workloads with latency-aware routing.
• Leverage AI tools to improve engineering workflows and infrastructure.
• Provide technical direction and mentor engineers.

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Cloud monitoring

Jobbeschreibung

VAS is seeking a DevOps Team Lead to own delivery, reliability, and operations for a broad AWS cloud platform. The role blends hands-on engineering (about 60%) with technical leadership (about 40%), translating product needs into infrastructure, guiding delivery, and ensuring automation, security, and cost-awareness.

You will design and manage IaC, CI/CD, and core AWS services, while setting standards, leading Scrum ceremonies, and coordinating incident response and platform improvements.