Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

YPO

Senior Lead DevOps Engineer designing and operating the cloud infrastructure and developer platform for YPO's AI-first mobile products. Leading strategic decisions and technical direction in DevOps practices.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonShell ScriptingTCP/IPTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure and developer platform.
Architect, implement, and continuously evolve cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
Own cloud cost management and FinOps practices.
Lead the evaluation and adoption of new cloud services, platforms, and tooling.
Codify everything and lead Infrastructure as Code practice using Terraform.
Design, build, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.
Design, operate, and improve the container orchestration infrastructure using Kubernetes.
Define and implement a comprehensive observability stack covering metrics, logs, distributed traces, and synthetic monitoring.
Embed security controls and compliance automation throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
Own the internal developer experience.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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: 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 — able to write clear documentation, present technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and lead engineering conversations with confidence.
Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy in a fast-moving environment, balancing long-term platform investment with near-term delivery needs.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Travel: 10–15% (domestic & international)
Flexible hours to support global teams

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsplatform engineeringsite reliability engineeringInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCI/CDKubernetesPythonBashnetworking fundamentals

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsautonomyleadershipdocumentationtechnical trade-offsengineering conversations