Senior DevOps Lead - AWS, IaC & Observability

Bluesight; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Generous insurance coverage

401k with company match

Training budget

Job summary

Bluesight is seeking a senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer to shape, build and scale our cloud platform. You will own infrastructure tooling, IaC pipelines, and the developer experience across CI/CD, monitoring, and cost optimization on AWS.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers while delivering highly available, scalable systems. Remote-friendly role open to the continental United States.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Developer ci/cd tooling, site reliability or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Track record of leading technical design, not just executing it.
• Comfortable communicating technical trade-offs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to design and develop scalable, fault-tolerant systems with cost-consciousness.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading teams.
• Ability to work through ambiguity with asynchronous communication and autonomy.
• Experience scoping/estimating technical work and catching scope creep early.
• Experience with Python, Java or Ruby in production.
• Experience with IaC and pipelines as code (Terraform, Helm etc.) and containers (Docker, K8s).
• Site Reliability in AWS environment.
• Expert-level knowledge with production observability systems (Datadog, Honeycomb, Sensu/NewRelic).
• Linux system administration expertise

Responsibilities

• Actively identify, plan and implement developer tooling and automation.
• Participate in on-call rotations and assist on-call engineering teams with diagnostics and troubleshooting.
• Set technical direction for the team’s infrastructure decisions and define DevOps strategy.
• Own scoping and estimation for infra projects and manage timelines.
• Mentor/guide team members and drive technical growth.

Skills

DevOps engineering

AWS

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Kubernetes

Observability

Python/Java/Ruby

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Bluesight is seeking a senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer to shape, build and scale our cloud platform. You will own infrastructure tooling, IaC pipelines, and the developer experience across CI/CD, monitoring, and cost optimization on AWS.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers while delivering highly available, scalable systems. Remote-friendly role open to the continental United States.