Lead DevOps Engineer

The Lead DevOps Engineer role is a full-time remote position responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure to support Shuru's product and consulting engagements. This role involves leading the end-to-end DevOps lifecycle, including CI/CD pipeline design, infrastructure-as-code implementation, environment provisioning, monitoring, and incident response. The lead devOps engineer will collaborate closely with software engineers, data teams, and product stakeholders to ensure smooth deployments, optimal performance, and effective observability across services and platforms. Day-to-day responsibilities include refining deployment workflows, automating repetitive tasks, improving system resilience, optimizing cloud costs, and mentoring team members on DevOps best practices. The role also includes evaluating new tools and practices, contributing to architecture decisions, and helping standardize DevOps frameworks across multiple client projects.

Requirements:

• Candidates should possess strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills, including experience with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar frameworks.
• Candidates should possess continuous integration skills, including designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI.
• Candidates should possess System Administration and Linux skills, including configuring, hardening, and troubleshooting Linux-based systems in production environments.
• Experience with major cloud providers (e. g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization/orchestration technologies (e. g., Docker, Kubernetes) is highly beneficial.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e. g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch) and familiarity with security best practices in cloud and DevOps workflows is preferred.

Skills

AWS, DevOps, lead devops, Terraform