# Lead DevOps Engineer-SaaS Platform

**Company:** [Aravo Solutions](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/aravo-solutions)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** DevOps, CI/CD, Iac, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Azure, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux, Java, Spring Boot
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Lead a DevOps team to evolve practices, improve CI/CD and IaC pipelines, enhance observability, and drive operational excellence for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Requires 8+ years DevOps experience including 3+ years leadership, expertise in AWS/Azure, and mentoring engineering teams.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Evolve DevOps practices by creating a culture of change, gathering continuous feedback, and driving efficiency through automation.
- Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), focusing on engineering efficiencies, quality, and security to accelerate deployment cycles.
- Partner with product architects and engineering teams to influence architecture and drive key technology decisions.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy to ensure that all infrastructure, systems, and services are scalable, secure, and cost effective.
- Drive operational excellence by implementing best practices for observability and incident management with KPIs to measure effectiveness and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure infrastructure, tools, software, and SaaS vendors adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements.
- Build, mentor, and support a team of engineers, creating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation that meets business needs.
- Assist in diagnosing and resolving customer issues, offering support for debugging and remediating issues.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum practices such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives as well as managing project timelines and deliverables effectively.
- Provide 24/7/365 coverage to support internal and external customers.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of DevOps experience, 3+ years in a leadership role.
- Adept at designing and architecting solutions in self-hosted, private/public cloud, and hybrid environments (Rackspace, AWS, Azure).
- Experience implementing DevOps best practices, tools, and methodologies, including CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and IaC (Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation/CDK).
- Management of SaaS applications (Java, Spring Boot, Oracle), including monitoring, incident management, and triaging issues.
- Deep understanding of observability tools for monitoring, logging, and analysis (Datadog, Sumo Logic, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).
- Knowledge of networking principles and how it applies to data flow and security.
- Experience debugging complex applications in Linux environments.
- History of mentoring and growing effective engineering teams.
- Worked within Agile and Lean software development teams.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Results oriented, product focused, and at ease in an environment requiring the ability to quickly and appropriately prioritize conflicting demands.
- Strong analytical skills, and excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- High degree of initiative consistently demonstrated by the active ownership of complex problems through their successful resolution.
- Team player eager to work closely with, learn from, and mentor others while continually improving self and team.
- Innately curious about new technologies and their practical application in a startup environment.
- Flexibility and willingness to pitch in and wear more than one hat in a dynamic organization.

## Benefits
- 100% Employer Paid Medical Insurance options for the Employee and Family
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401K with Company Matching
- Equity Participation
- 4 Weeks of Vacation
- Fully Stocked Kitchens
- Company-Sponsored Charitable Day of Giving Events
- ...and many more!

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