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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # (Remote) DevOps Team Lead - **Company:** EFinancial, LLC - **Location:** Des Plaines, IL, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $138,000.0 - $178,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Software Deployment, Delivery Pipeline, Containerization, Kubernetes, Atlassian Tools, Bitbucket, Cloud Migration, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=829153af7a7e9efb ## About the Role * B.S. in Computer Engineering or related field, or commensurate real-world DevOps experience. * 7+ years in a DevOps role, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering experience, including demonstrated experience leading engineers, owning technical delivery, or managing complex cross-functional technical initiatives. * Proven experience with AWS services and cloud migration projects. * Extensive experience with CI/CD tools and modern pipeline automation; experience with Bitbucket Pipelines preferred. * Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code. * Strong knowledge of Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket). * Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). * Demonstrated experience leading incident response, owning production reliability, mentoring engineers, and setting team technical standards. Skills: * Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. * Strong communication and collaboration abilities; writes clear documentation and presents technical direction. * Sound judgment, weighing decisions at the organizational level for cross-team impact. * Self-directed and able to lead unfamiliar or ambiguous technical initiatives with minimal supervision while keeping stakeholders informed and aligned. * Willing to learn and adapt to new technologies, leading by example. Licenses + Certifications: * AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (required) * AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (preferred) ## Description * Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, including the team's most complex technical initiatives, while coaching engineers through successful delivery. * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines), Terraform infrastructure as code, and internal platform tooling. * Accountable for the successful execution of complex production deployments while coaching engineers and ensuring repeatable automation. * Improve deployment safety through automation, pre/post-deploy verification, and rollback. * Establish the team's technical implementation strategy and continuous improvement roadmap in alignment with enterprise architecture, platform standards, and organizational objectives. Drive enterprise ecosystem improvements through hands-on technical leadership. * Implement and continuously improve the team's production ownership model in alignment with organizational operational standards. * Deliver team commitments while supporting organizational operational objectives established by the Director. * Serve as people leader for the team's engineers, including performance management and goal setting, ongoing feedback, career development, and hiring participation; set and enforce the team's quality standards and review practices. * Communicate with leadership and across teams, translating both ways; author and present the team's technical documentation and direction. * Enforce enterprise standards, security best practices, and compliance, including the Environment Management agreement and the change and incident/PIR processes. * Design, build, and continuously improve the shared engineering platform that enables product teams through automation, IaC, CI/CD, developer tooling self-service capabilities. * Evaluate, implement, and promote AI-enabled engineering and operational automation that improves developer productivity, deployment quality, incident response, and platform operations. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [The journey from developer to devops - what i've learnt along the way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/238-the-journey-from-developer-to-devops-what-i-ve-learnt-along-the-way) - [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Mastering Remote Work: Tips for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/558-mastering-remote-work-tips-for-developers) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025)