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These teams need more than additional hands-they need senior engineers who can quickly understand an environment, identify the path forward, and execute without constant direction.\nEnter EverOps - the premier Embedded Service Provider. We partner directly with customer engineering teams to assess and address mission-critical infrastructure, cloud, security, and delivery challenges.\nThe Challenge\nEverOps is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with deep AWS infrastructure experience, exceptional cloud networking expertise, and a proven ability to establish and scale mature infrastructure engineering practices.\nThis role will be responsible for helping build and lead the engineering capability supporting customer deployments across new and existing AWS environments. You'll establish the infrastructure foundations, security standards, deployment patterns, and operational practices necessary to deliver reliable, repeatable, and scalable customer infrastructure.\nYou'll operate within a business-critical environment where ensuring operational stability, strengthening security practices, reducing technical debt, and establishing scalable engineering standards are essential. The infrastructure spans AWS, networking, application platforms, databases, and production operations, requiring someone who can evaluate the broader technical landscape and identify practical opportunities for improvement.\nSuccess requires more than hands-on technical expertise. You'll need to evaluate existing engineering practices, establish standards, mentor engineers, and build processes that enable a growing team to operate effectively while maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and operational excellence.\nThis role requires someone who can quickly assess unfamiliar environments, work through ambiguity, and independently translate business and technical objectives into actionable engineering deliverables.\nThe Mission\nAs a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will join our U.S.-Based Virtual Operating Center and embed directly with a customer engineering team.\nYour primary focus will be building and maturing the infrastructure engineering capability responsible for supporting customer deployments across AWS environments. You'll provide hands-on technical leadership in designing, provisioning, securing, and operating cloud infrastructure while establishing the processes, standards, and engineering practices needed to scale delivery.\nYou'll work closely with application engineers, security teams, networking teams, and customer stakeholders to ensure infrastructure is deployment-ready, operationally supportable, and aligned with AWS architectural and security best practices.\nYour responsibilities will include multi-account AWS architecture, cloud networking, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, security hardening, disaster recovery, and production readiness. You'll also support ongoing infrastructure migrations and modernization efforts, ensuring changes are implemented safely and aligned with established engineering standards.\nAs the engineering function grows, you'll help establish team responsibilities, technical standards, delivery processes, and operational expectations while mentoring engineers and driving continuous improvement.\nThis is a highly autonomous, hands-on technical leadership role. You'll be expected to identify what needs improvement, prioritize work based on operational risk and business impact, define actionable technical deliverables, and drive initiatives through completion without requiring step-by-step direction.\nWhat You'll Do\nTeam Development: Help build and develop an infrastructure engineering team, establishing technical expectations, mentoring engineers, and creating repeatable processes that support consistent, high-quality delivery.\n\nAWS Account Architecture: Design, provision, and maintain secure, scalable AWS account structures, landing zones, networking foundations, access controls, and infrastructure provisioning workflows.\n\nDeployment Enablement: Partner with application and customer engineering teams to provision, configure, and maintain infrastructure supporting customer deployments across new and existing AWS accounts.\n\nInfrastructure Standardization: Develop reusable Terraform modules, infrastructure templates, deployment patterns, and engineering standards that improve consistency, security, and delivery efficiency.\n\nOperational Maturity: Assess existing DevOps practices, infrastructure management, operational procedures, and engineering workflows to identify gaps, reduce technical debt, and implement practical improvements aligned with industry best practices.\n\nCloud Security: Evaluate and improve cloud security posture through infrastructure hardening, least-privilege access, IAM best practices, network segmentation, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and secure infrastructure configurations.\n\nCloud Migration: Provide hands-on engineering support for the migration and modernization of production workloads from legacy hosted infrastructure into AWS.\n\nNetwork Engineering: Diagnose and resolve complex connectivity, routing, DNS, firewall, VPN, load-balancing, security-group, and hybrid-networking issues impacting customer deployments, infrastructure migrations, and production systems.\n\nMigration Planning: Assess undocumented or partially documented environments, identify dependencies and blockers, and translate findings into practical migration plans and technical workstreams.\n\nAWS Infrastructure: Design, build, troubleshoot, secure, and improve production AWS environments using modern infrastructure-as-code practices and established architectural standards.\n\nLegacy Modernization: Identify and remediate risks associated with legacy infrastructure and operating systems, supporting migrations to modern, secure, and maintainable platforms.\n\nPlatform Engineering: Implement and improve CI/CD, monitoring, observability, secrets management, configuration management, and deployment automation.\n\nDisaster Recovery: Design and implement AWS-based disaster recovery capabilities, including infrastructure, replication dependencies, recovery procedures, and operational runbooks.\n\nOperational Readiness: Establish and maintain standards for infrastructure monitoring, deployment validation, change management, incident response, production support, and ongoing operational reliability.\n\nProduction Cutovers: Support migration rehearsals, rollback planning, production cutovers, validation, and post-migration stabilization.\n\nTechnical Ownership: Independently define and execute technical deliverables, surface risks early, and drive issues to resolution.\n\nDocumentation: Produce useful architecture documentation, infrastructure standards, migration plans, operational runbooks, dependency maps, and knowledge-transfer materials.\n\nTechnical Leadership: Serve as a senior technical partner to customer engineers and EverOps team members, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and direction when ambiguity or complex infrastructure decisions arise.\n\nYou Have\nExperience: 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related discipline, with significant production AWS experience.\n\nAWS Expertise: Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, securing, troubleshooting, and improving production workloads and infrastructure in AWS.\n\nNetworking Depth: Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, subnetting, DNS, NAT, firewalls, VPNs, proxies, load balancers, security groups, network ACLs, and AWS networking services.\n\nAWS Networking: Production experience with VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints, VPN connectivity, and multi-account or hybrid-network environments.\n\nMulti-Account AWS Architecture: Experience designing and operating multi-account AWS environments, including AWS Organizations, account provisioning, cross-account access, centralized networking, and security governance.\n\nInfrastructure Delivery: Experience building and maintaining infrastructure platforms that support repeatable application and customer deployments across multiple environments.\n\nEngineering Leadership: Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, establishing engineering standards, and coordinating infrastructure delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives.\n\nPlatform Architecture: Ability to define reusable infrastructure patterns, automate environment provisioning, and establish secure, scalable deployment practices across AWS environments.\n\nOperational Best Practices: Demonstrated experience evaluating and improving DevOps maturity, including infrastructure standardization, deployment practices, operational readiness, change management, incident response, and production reliability.\n\nCloud Security: Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, IAM, least-privilege access, network security, encryption, secrets management, infrastructure hardening, and secure configuration management.\n\nMigration Experience: Experience supporting data-center, hosted-infrastructure, lift-and-shift, re-platforming, or cloud-modernization migrations involving live production workloads.\n\nInfrastructure as Code: Advanced proficiency with Terraform and experience managing production infrastructure through version-controlled IaC.\n\nLinux: Strong Linux systems administration, security hardening, and troubleshooting skills, including experience maintaining and modernizing production environments.\n\nContainers: Production experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.\n\nCI/CD: Experience designing, securing, and operating modern CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar platforms.\n\nObservability: Experience implementing and improving monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational visibility using platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or comparable tooling.\n\nAutomation: Strong scripting ability using Python, Bash, or similar languages to automate infrastructure, security, and operational workflows.\n\nProduction Operations: Experience 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