Lead DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to own and scale our cloud infrastructure across GCP, and Azure, enabling our engineering teams to deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a multi-cloud environment, loves automation, and can mentor other engineers while building world-class infrastructure.

As the Lead DevOps Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, optimize system performance, and lead efforts around observability, security, and reliability. You will be a key partner to engineering leadership, driving our DevOps strategy and building a culture of automation, scalability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Operations

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and cost-optimized infrastructure in GCP, and Azure.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) for consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Lead multi-cloud strategy, ensuring workloads are secure, and resilient.
• Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability, and security (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar).
• Champion an automation-first approach, reducing manual intervention in builds, deployments, and scaling.

Observability & Reliability

• Introduce and maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting (New Relic, Datadog, ELK etc.).
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis to improve system resilience.

Security & Compliance

• Integrate security into every layer (identity, secrets management, patching, vulnerability scanning).
• Ensure compliance with SOC 2 or other regulatory requirements as applicable.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentor DevOps and software engineers, providing technical guidance and best practices.
• Partner with product, engineering, and leadership to align infrastructure initiatives with business goals.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging DevOps tools and practices to keep the organization on the cutting edge.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Proven hands-on experience with two major cloud platforms (GCP, Azure)
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation).
• Strong background with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI).
• Experience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, New Relic).
• Knowledge of networking, load balancers, DNS, VPN, and firewalls in a cloud context.
• Familiarity with security best practices (least privilege, secrets management, vulnerability scanning).
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

How to Apply:

If you are passionate about technology and eager to work on a dynamic team, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and cover letter today! 

Application Process:

1. Screening call with a recruiter
2. Hiring Manager Interview
3. Team Interview
4. Final Interview with SDL CEO
5. Reference Checks

Equal Opportunity Employer:

SDL is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. It's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and by providing this data, if you choose to, it will help us to stay accountable. 

Join us in creating amazing technology solutions that make a difference. Apply today!