[Hiring] DevOps Team Lead @Datassential

Role Description

The DevOps Team lead reports to the Sr. Director, DevOps & IT. It is a hands-on technical lead position with no direct people-management responsibilities.

The position is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers Datassential’s applications and data platforms. We focus on automation, reliability, and scalability to ensure our systems remain secure, efficient, and resilient. Our goal is to provide a strong, stable foundation that allows our engineering teams to deliver high-quality products quickly and reliably.

• Build, manage, and enhance automated CI/CD pipelines on Buildkite and AWS and GCP-based infrastructure.
• Implement and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to understand requirements and troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues.
• Own uptime management and platform observability.
• Partner with other senior engineers on design, architecture, implementation, and security.
• Help organize the team's day-to-day operations.
• Own the health of our Jira boards.
• Represent DevOps in stakeholder meetings.
• Champion best practices and contribute to architectural direction.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in DevOps.
• Extensive hands-on experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure (GCP exposure is a plus).
• Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Strong experience with modern CI/CD pipeline tooling — Buildkite preferred.
• Comfortable deploying and managing containerized workloads on AWS ECS.
• Solid Linux administration skills.
• Experienced with secure networking concepts.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating technical work across a team.

Requirements

• Experience with security and compliance tools (Snyk, SonarCloud, Intruder.io, Vanta).
• Experience managing AWS IAM and familiarity with JumpCloud.
• Experience integrating Atlassian tools into CI/CD workflows.
• Experience supporting ML workloads and MLOps pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with AI developer tools.
• Previous experience using AWS Serverless services.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus eligibility for a performance-linked annual bonus plan.
• Affordable Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, including a no cost employee-only plan.
• Paid parental leave.
• 401K with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 5%.
• Unlimited PTO, recharge days, and Christmas through New Year break.
• 100% business travel reimbursement.
• Wellness Reimbursement or HQ Gym access.
• Remote stipend for 100% remote roles.