Particle41 - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Strategy & Practice Ownership • Own the DevOps technical roadmap and vision, in collaboration with architects and stakeholders, and align it with business goals. • Define the "golden path": reference architectures, reusable IaC modules, pipeline templates, and standards that teams across projects adopt. • Be accountable for platform reliability, security posture, and delivery velocity outcomes across the engagements you lead; measured through SLOs, not just activities performed. • Represent the DevOps practice with clients: participate in discovery and pre-sales conversations, estimate and scope infrastructure workstreams, and advise client leadership on cloud and platform decisions. • Contribute to growing the practice interview and assess DevOps candidates, and help shape team structure and capability development. • Infrastructure & Platform Engineering • Lead the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi. • Architect and operate container platforms, including Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and managed container services, to support scalable, resilient workloads. • Define landing zones, account/subscription structures, and network topologies that balance security, cost, and developer velocity. • Evaluate and recommend platform tooling and managed services to support business requirements. • CI/CD & Automation • CI/CD & Automation • Own the CI/CD strategy and pipeline architecture (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins) that makes releases fast, repeatable, and safe across teams. • Drive an automation-first culture across build, test, deployment, and environment provisioning — setting the standard for eliminating manual toil, and staying hands-on where it matters most. • Establish GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) for declarative, auditable deployments. • Reliability & Observability • Define the observability strategy - monitoring, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry) and drive its adoption across teams. • Own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering and product teams, and hold teams accountable to them. • Own incident response, on-call practices, and blameless post-incident reviews to continuously improve system resilience. • Plan for capacity, scalability, and disaster recovery, including backup strategies and multi-region considerations. • Security & Cost Optimization • Own the DevSecOps posture: define and embed security standards into the delivery pipeline — secrets management, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and policy as code. • Support compliance initiatives (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) with automated controls and evidence collection. • Own cloud cost outcomes: drive right-sizing, autoscaling, and FinOps practices, and report spend posture to stakeholders. • Mentorship and Coaching • Mentor and coach DevOps and software engineers to enhance their technical skills and expertise. • Foster a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning. • Review infrastructure code and pipeline changes, providing constructive feedback to improve quality and maintainability. • Leadership • Leadership • Provide technical leadership and guidance on infrastructure, platform, and operational decisions. • Lead by example through hands-on involvement in automation, tooling, and design discussions. • Identify and resolve technical challenges to ensure project success. • Continuous Improvement • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance delivery processes and methodologies. • Track DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore) and use them to guide improvements. • Facilitate lessons-learned meetings to learn from past experiences and improve future projects. • Stay up to date with industry best practices and standards in DevOps, platform engineering, and cloud operations.