Role overview

Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity
  • Deep, demonstrable expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS strongly preferred) and solid working knowledge of a second (Azure or GCP)
  • Infrastructure as Code proficiency: Terraform is required. Experience with CloudFormation, Pulumi, or CDK is a plus
  • CI/CD experience: hands-on design and operation of pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, or equivalent tools across multiple workload types
  • Strong Kubernetes experience, including cluster management, Helm chart authoring, RBAC, network policies, and workload auto-scaling in a production cloud environment
  • Proficiency in Python for automation and tooling; comfort with Bash/shell scripting for operational tasks
  • Solid understanding of networking fundamentals β€” DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, load balancing, CDN, VPC design, and private connectivity patterns
  • Experience implementing observability solutions using tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, or equivalent platforms
  • Practical knowledge of container security, secrets management, and cloud IAM patterns, with experience working alongside a security engineering function
  • Strong communication skills β€” able to write clear documentation, present technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and lead engineering conversations with confidence

Benefits

  • Flexible hours to support global teams
  • 10–15% travel (domestic & international)
  • EOE (Equal Opportunity Employer)
  • YPO takes pride in supporting a diverse workforce and demonstrates this through its policies and practices
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FocusSenior DevOps EngineerRole area
Seniority signalSeniorCandidate level
StackAWS, Azure, CI/CDPrimary skills
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