[Hiring] DevOps Team Lead @Insightful

About Us

Insightful is a market-leading platform for employee productivity and workforce analytics. We process really big data, synthesize it into actionable insights, and ultimately provide a best-in-class, easy-to-use product that empowers enterprise customers to improve employee productivity, business processes, and overall staff well-being.

Job Description:

As a DevOps Team Lead / DevOps Manager at Insightful, you will blend your technical expertise in cloud environments and CI/CD processes with your leadership skills to optimize our DevOps practices. You will manage a team of DevOps engineers, ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our cloud infrastructure, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture, and driving continuous improvement in our deployment and monitoring processes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, conducting regular one-on-one meetings and providing clear, constructive feedback
• Oversee the management and organization of our Cloud environment on GCP and on-premise environments, including tasks related to CI/CD and Release Automation
• Be responsible for high availability and reliability of production environments, and implementation of robust monitoring and alerting systems
• Provide technical guidance and support, assisting with troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Collaborate with development teams to refine and enhance deployment processes
• Create and maintain onboarding plans for new hires, ensuring smooth integration into the team
• Conduct technical interviews and contribute to the hiring process for new team members
• Develop and implement individual objectives for team members, aligned with overall team strategy
• Foster a sense of psychological safety within the team, protecting them from disruptions and outside interference
• Report to the Director of Engineering on team performance, progress, and training needs

You are a great fit for this role, if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps or a related field, with expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and orchestration (K8s)
• At least 2 years of experience in a leadership or managerial role, demonstrating strong communication and people development skills
• Experience with GCP infrastructure, or alternatively AWS/Azure
• Proven knowledge of CI/CD tooling and processes
• Strong experience in managing production environments with high uptime expectations
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to mentor and guide team members in technical matters
• Fluency in English

Bonus points:

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar
• Familiarity with managed services like Mongo Atlas and Elastic Cloud
• Hands-on coding experience, with the ability to contribute to technical projects up to 50% of the time
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies

Sounds interesting? Let's talk. :)