Lead DevOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD, and Reliability Leader

Solomon Page; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Solomon Page is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to oversee development, implementation, and maintenance of DevOps processes and infrastructure. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborating with application developers, data engineers, SRE, security, and IT to automate and streamline operations for reliability, scale, and security.

The role emphasizes leadership, cloud-focused infrastructure, and robust CI/CD practices, with a salary range of $175,000-$225,000.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years in DevOps with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Expert knowledge of cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53).
• Strong Linux skills and automation scripting ability.
• Proven incident RCA and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Experience with IaC and configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack).
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes; experience with ECS is a plus.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools (Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Excellent communicator and cross-functional collaborator.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers and coordinate with teams across disciplines.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, tests, and deployments.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency, AWS preferred.
• Collaborate with SRE to implement monitoring and alerting for system health.
• Work with Security to enforce security controls across infrastructure and apps.
• Partner with developers to improve application reliability and performance.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and business continuity efforts.
• Communicate project status, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Contribute to on-call rotation to provide system support.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Cloud platforms

Linux scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring & logging

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Terraform

SaltStack

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Solomon Page is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to oversee development, implementation, and maintenance of DevOps processes and infrastructure. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborating with application developers, data engineers, SRE, security, and IT to automate and streamline operations for reliability, scale, and security.

The role emphasizes leadership, cloud-focused infrastructure, and robust CI/CD practices, with a salary range of $175,000-$225,000.