Devops Engineer

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the cloud and infrastructure foundations that support a fleet of battery cyclers and cloud applications. In this fully remote role (within CA, TX, MN, WA, or CO), you collaborate closely with embedded software, analytics, operations, and software engineering teams to transform requirements into secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective systems. You combine meaningful individual contributor ownership with technical leadership in architecture, design reviews, automation, and mentorship to deliver dependable infrastructure and data systems at startup pace. Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate the cloud and infrastructure foundations that support battery cyclers and cloud applications.
• Collaborate closely with embedded software, analytics, operations, and software engineering teams to translate requirements into robust infrastructure solutions.
• Own the architecture of AWS-based cloud environments, ensuring security, networking, compute, storage, identity, observability, and cost management are well designed and maintained.
• Build, scale, and operate Kubernetes clusters, including Amazon EKS, to support highly available and scalable services.
• Design, implement, and operate monitoring and observability solutions across Kubernetes and AWS environments to ensure reliability and performance.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and configuration automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Packer.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads using Docker and related tooling.
• Raise technical and operational risks early, propose mitigation strategies, and guide the team toward sound technical decisions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture and design reviews, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Mentor teammates by sharing best practices in DevOps, cloud architecture, automation, and observability.
• Support and improve Linux-based systems administration across the infrastructure stack.
• Contribute to the design and operation of infrastructure that supports IoT and ETL workloads in the cloud.

DevOps, Ansible Terraform Visionary Operations Leadership Automation Mentorship Innovation Kubernetes Scalability Reliability Communication Observability Cost Management Health Insurance Docker (Software) Embedded, Software Project Management, * Deep experience with AWS and cloud architecture, including security, networking, compute, storage, identity, observability, and cost management.

• Deep expertise in building, scaling, and operating Kubernetes clusters, including Amazon EKS.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and operating monitoring and observability solutions across Kubernetes and AWS environments.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code and configuration automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Packer.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS and cloud architecture, building Kubernetes clusters, and Linux system administration.
• Proficiency working in Linux environments and performing Linux system administration.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD practices and tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application deployment.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience supporting IoT workloads on cloud infrastructure.
• Experience designing or maintaining ETL pipelines within cloud environments.
• Ability to provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, startup-like environment while maintaining reliability and security., Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

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