DevOps Technical Lead (Hands-on IC * Future Manager)

We are looking for a strong hands-on DevOps engineer with leadership potential to join our team as a Technical Lead. This role is primarily an individual contributor (~70% hands-on) with growing leadership responsibilities (~30%), reporting to an existing DevOps Manager. You will enable engineering teams across QTS OS and SDP platforms, improving developer productivity and building scalable, secure, cloud-native infrastructure.

Hands-On Engineering (~70%)

• Design and operate AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build developer platforms and self-service tooling.
• Manage deployments across environments Troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Improve monitoring and observability Optimize cost, performance, reliability.
• Partner with development teams.

Security & Platform Architecture.

• Support Entra ID and IAM integration.
• Design secure token/JWT-based systems.
• Contribute to zero-trust architecture.
• Ensure compliance and security standards.

Technical Leadership (~30%)

• Lead by example with hands-on contributions.
• Mentor engineers
• Drive DevOps best practices.
• Influence platform roadmap
• Support development teams

• U.S. Citizenship required
• 5+ years DevOps experience Strong AWS, Terraform, CI/CD experience
• Strong scripting/programming
• Experience supporting development teams
• Microservices experience, * AWS Certification
• Container platforms (ECS/Kubernetes)
• Platform engineering experience
• Distributed teams experience

Operational Expectations

• Participate in on-call rotation
• Support production releases