[Hiring] Senior Lead DevOps Engineer @YPO

Role Description

YPO is seeking a Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure and developer platform that will power its next generation of products. This is a hands-on technical leadership role spanning the full DevOps surface — cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, release engineering, observability, platform reliability, and developer experience — all in service of a rapidly scaling AI-first mobile platform.

You will be a close partner to the Director of Product, Lead Security Engineer, and mobile engineering leadership — connecting platform reliability to product velocity and security posture in equal measure. You will bring strong technical depth, a product-minded approach to internal tooling, and the communication skills to champion engineering excellence across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Design and Operations
  • Own the architecture and day-to-day operation of YPO's cloud infrastructure across its full lifecycle.
  • Architect, implement, and continuously evolve YPO's cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
  • Design and manage multi-region, highly available environments for a 35,000+ member global community.
  • Own cloud cost management and FinOps practices.
  • Lead the evaluation and adoption of new cloud services, platforms, and tooling.
  • Manage DNS, CDN, load balancing, and networking configurations across cloud environments.
• Infrastructure as Code and Automation
  • Lead YPO's Infrastructure as Code practice using Terraform.
  • Define and enforce IaC standards, module structures, and governance practices.
  • Automate environment provisioning, teardown, and configuration management.
  • Build and maintain automation pipelines for routine operational tasks.
  • Write clean, well-tested automation scripts in Python, Bash, or equivalent.
• CI/CD Pipeline Design and Release Engineering
  • Design, build, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for YPO's mobile, backend API, AI platform, and data engineering workloads.
  • Implement branch strategies, environment promotion workflows, and feature flagging patterns.
  • Integrate automated quality gates as non-negotiable steps in every pipeline.
  • Lead the adoption of progressive delivery techniques.
  • Own release documentation, change management workflows, and deployment runbooks.
• Container Orchestration and Platform Engineering
  • Design, operate, and continuously improve YPO's container orchestration infrastructure using Kubernetes.
  • Manage container image governance.
  • Implement and maintain service mesh, ingress controllers, and network policies.
  • Evaluate and adopt platform engineering tools that improve developer self-service.
  • Lead the migration, decomposition, or consolidation of existing services.
• Observability, Monitoring, and Site Reliability
  • Design and implement a comprehensive observability stack.
  • Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across YPO's platform services.
  • Build and maintain dashboards, alerting rules, and on-call runbooks.
  • Lead blameless post-mortem processes following significant incidents.
  • Own capacity planning and performance benchmarking for the AI-first mobile platform.
• DevSecOps and Compliance Automation
  • Partner with the Lead Security Engineer to embed security controls throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Implement and maintain secrets management solutions.
  • Enforce cloud security baselines using policy-as-code frameworks.
  • Support SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other compliance programmes.
  • Manage network security controls across cloud environments.
• Developer Experience and Technical Leadership
  • Own the internal developer experience.
  • Define and document engineering standards for environment configuration.
  • Mentor and up-level junior engineers and platform contributors.
  • Act as a cross-functional bridge between product, mobile engineering, AI/data engineering, and security.
  • Contribute to technology investment decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.
• Deep expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS strongly preferred).
• Infrastructure as Code proficiency: Terraform is required.
• CI/CD experience: hands-on design and operation of pipelines.
• Strong Kubernetes experience.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and tooling.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience implementing observability solutions.
• Practical knowledge of container security and cloud IAM patterns.
• Strong communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy in a fast-moving environment.

Preferred

• Experience supporting native iOS and/or Android mobile release pipelines.
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure.
• Experience with platform engineering tools.
• Exposure to FinOps tooling and cloud cost optimisation.
• Experience with multi-region, active-active deployment architectures.
• Prior experience in a global SaaS or membership platform.

Relevant Certifications (Valued)

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional.
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

Additional Information

• Travel: 10–15% (domestic & international).
• Flexible hours to support global teams.
• EOE: YPO is an Equal Opportunity Employer.