[Hiring] DevOps Tech Lead Manager @Aplazo

Role Description

Aplazo’s mission is to empower financial access, opportunity, and freedom by connecting people and businesses in Latin America through fair, simple, and transparent financial solutions. We are looking for a DevOps Tech Lead Manager to lead our DevOps squad — the team that keeps Aplazo’s core infrastructure reliable, scalable, and secure. This is a first-line people management role: you will own the squad’s delivery, quality, and on-call, while staying hands-on as an engineer 40–60% of your time.

You are the person your squad trusts to remove blockers, tell them the truth (good or bad), and connect their day-to-day work to why it matters for Aplazo’s business.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering with production ownership
• Prior experience leading a team formally (as a manager) or informally (as a tech lead)
• Track record of owning delivery for a team, not just individual tickets
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD systems and modern delivery practices
• Hands-on experience with AWS (Fargate, ECS, EC2, RDS/Postgres, ElastiCache, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis)
• Proficiency with observability tools (Datadog preferred)
• Comfortable with scripting/automation in Python, Bash, or Node.js/TypeScript
• Solid understanding of cloud security practices, secret management, and compliance requirements
• Experience running 1:1s, giving structured feedback, and writing performance reviews
• Strong communicator: direct, clear, and comfortable surfacing bad news

Requirements

• Managing and growing a squad of 4–8 DevOps engineers (E1 through E3)
• Owning your squad’s delivery commitments, code/infra quality, and on-call rotation
• Staying hands-on with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability work
• Running 1:1s, writing performance reviews, and coaching career growth
• Hiring and onboarding new engineers into the squad
• Owning squad-level incidents and post-mortems
• Tying the squad’s work to business OKRs/KPIs and representing the squad in planning

Benefits

• Lead a squad building the infrastructure that powers financial inclusion across Latin America
• Stay hands-on as an engineer while growing your people-leadership craft
• Work in a high-growth fintech at the intersection of infrastructure, delivery, and real business impact
• A team with deep roots in product, technology, and culture-focused companies