# Lead DevOps Engineer

**Company:** [Octus](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/octus)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, EC2, S3, Rds, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Linux, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-06-18

> Lead a team of DevOps engineers to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and security best practices. Requires 7+ years of DevOps experience including 2 years in leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
- Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
- Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
- Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
- Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.

## Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in a DevOps role, with 2 years in a leadership position.
- Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
- Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents.
- Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

## Compensation
- Salary range: $160,000-$215,000 plus an annual bonus.
- Eligible for an annual year-end performance bonus.

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