Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and SRE engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement
Own the strategy and execution of Axion's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, and incident response processes
Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to align infrastructure investments with product scalability and reliability goals
Drive a roadmap for infrastructure modernization, capacity planning, and cost efficiency across our cloud environments
Champion security and compliance best practices, working cross-functionally to maintain a strong security posture
Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets — and hold the team accountable to them
Be hands-on when it counts: debugging production issues, reviewing architecture decisions, and unblocking your team
Build and maintain the systems, tooling, and processes that let Axion's engineers ship fast with confidence

Requirements

7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 2 years in an engineering management or team lead role
Deep hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent)
Strong background in CI/CD, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and incident management
Proven ability to build, retain, and develop high-performing engineering teams
Experience managing infrastructure for data-intensive or AI/ML workloads is a strong plus
Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action
Experience at a venture-backed startup preferred

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsSREinfrastructure engineeringcloud platformsKubernetesTerraformPulumiCI/CDobservabilityincident management

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringteam buildingcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilityownershipreliabilitycontinuous improvementcross-functional collaboration