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As part of the mission, you will help manage the stability, security, and scalability of systems powering complex data transformation workflows and a widely used web-based user interface. Embedded within a broader engineering organization of 25+ developers, you will lead a small, agile DevOps/SysAdmin team responsible for end-to-end infrastructure, from bare-metal and AWS environments to Kubernetes deployments.\nIn this role, you will collaborate across software teams to help architect robust systems, support development processes, maintain metrics and oversight to track up time and performance of systems. You will mentor other team members in modern automation tools using Ansible, Terraform, and Podman, as well as testing and deployment strategies. 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