DevOps Engineering Team Lead

Bluesight

$160K — $185K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in DevOps/circulation tooling, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering roles
  • Proven track record in leading technical design
  • Strong communication skills for technical concepts to varied audiences
  • Experience in designing scalable, cost-efficient fault-tolerant systems
  • Mentorship experience in engineering or informal leadership roles
  • Capability to manage ambiguity with remote communication
  • Proficient in scoping and estimating technical projects
  • Familiarity with Python, Java, or Ruby for application support
  • Expertise in infrastructure as code and containerization
  • Strong background in AWS site reliability practices
  • Advanced knowledge of production observability systems
  • Linux system administration expertise

Responsibilities

  • Identify, plan, and implement developer tooling and automation solutions
  • Participate in on-call rotations and assist with diagnostics and troubleshooting
  • Set and guide technical direction for infrastructure decisions
  • Own the scope and estimation process for infrastructure projects
  • Mentor team members and support technical growth opportunities
  • Collaborate with cross-functional technical teams to achieve goals
  • Work on continuous integration and deployment, access control, and observability tools

Benefits

  • Opportunities to tackle scaling and security challenges
  • Experience in bridging hardware and software platforms
  • Significant impact on project direction and design choices
  • Trust to own your work and decision-making
  • Dedicated budget for professional training and development
  • Collaborative environment with talented coworkers
Full Job Description
You9ll help shape, build and grow the foundations of our platform. We9re excited for the perspectives you bring and looking forward to your approach to our goals. You9ll be responsible for contributing to, operating, and improving all aspects of our infrastructure and the developer experience with the infrastructure. You are able to maintain a holistic view of the development, testing, and production environments, while collaborating with all members of the technical team to support, maintain, and deploy the best products possible. You9ll also set technical direction for the team and take ownership of how infrastructure projects are scoped and tracked. The ideal candidate will be very experienced with Amazon Web Services, infrastructure-as-code tools like Cloudformation or Terraform, and a strong desire to foster and grow an empathic and cooperative engineering culture.

Behind the scenes, the team is working to improve the durability and efficiency of our products by improving the tooling, deployment, and shared computing layer for the company, while optimizing for cost, scale, and fault-tolerance on AWS. As Bluesight grows, these will be key initiatives enabling Bluesight developers the ability to deliver operationally excellent and highly available products to our customers.

The team9s scope of work includes tooling and systems for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), access control, benchmarking, observability, incident response, database replication, cost engineering, and more.

You Can Expect To

  • Actively identify, plan and implement developer tooling and automation
  • Participate in on-call rotations and assist on-call engineering teams with diagnostics and troubleshooting of platform and infrastructure
  • Set technical direction for the team9s infrastructure decisions, and take an active role in defining overall DevOps strategy and quarterly planning
  • Own scoping and estimation for infra projects, and hold timelines accountable once set
  • Take on some mentoring/technical growth responsibilities for team members


Required Qualifications

  • 6+ years in Developer ci/cd tooling, site reliability or infrastructure engineering roles
  • Track record of leading technical design, not just executing it
  • Comfortable communicating technical trade-offs and decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
  • Proven ability to design and develop scalable, efficient, and cost-conscious fault-tolerant systems
  • Prior experience mentoring engineers or informal people leadership
  • Ability to work through ambiguity with asynchronous communication and autonomy
  • Experience scoping/estimating technical work and catching scope creep early
  • Experience with supporting applications in one or more of Python, Java or Ruby
  • Success implementing infrastructure as code including pipelines as code (Terraform, Helm etc.) and containers (Docker, K8s)
  • Site Reliability in a cloud environment (AWS)
  • Expert-level knowledge with production observability systems (Datadog, HoneyComb or Sensu/NewRelic etc.)
  • Linux system administration expertise


Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep experience with IAM and implementation of hybrid RBAC/ABAC policy environments
  • Database management expertise, especially the AWS flavors (RDS, Aurora)
  • Security and compliance control experience, especially with SOC2, HIPAA, or HiTRUST controls
  • Any code, writing, or projects that are public or shareable demonstrating experience or understanding of how operational excellence is key to delivering great products


What You9ll Get From Us

  • Opportunities to solve problems of scale, debt, and security to redefine what9s possible in medication intelligence
  • Challenging and difficult problems bridging our hardware and software platforms
  • A strong voice in what we work on, how it works, and how we build it
  • Our trust in your ownership of your work
  • Dedicated budget for training and career development
  • Coworkers who you9ll learn from, who will push you, and who are looking to learn from you


$160,000 - $185,000 a year

The standard base pay range for this role is $160,000 - $185,000 when annualized. In addition to a base salary, this position is also eligible for an amazing benefits package. The actual amount of salary offered will vary depending on the position level, experience, performance, and location. This position is fully remote and open to applicants in the continental United States.

This position is a remote position and open to qualified applicants in the continental United States who are eligible to work in the United States without Visa sponsorship.

This position is open to applicants in the continental United States.

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