Remote Lead DevOps Engineer: Kubernetes, CI/CD & Cloud

Far Coder; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k matching

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

Octus is hiring a remote Lead DevOps Engineer for a full-time role based in the USA. You will lead a team of engineers, design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability and cost-efficiency.

The role requires expert Linux knowledge, IaC experience, and strong collaboration with SRE and Security to enforce best practices across systems and applications.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in a DevOps role, with 2 years in a leadership position.
• Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
• Expert level knowledge of Linux.
• Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents.
• Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
• Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

AWS

Docker

Linux

Configuration Management

DevOps

Excel

Jenkins

Microservices

Scala

Tools

Jenkins

Github Actions

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Octus is hiring a remote Lead DevOps Engineer for a full-time role based in the USA. You will lead a team of engineers, design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability and cost-efficiency.

The role requires expert Linux knowledge, IaC experience, and strong collaboration with SRE and Security to enforce best practices across systems and applications.