Lead Devops Engineer

The role

The Lead Devops Engineer will design, build, and own cloud infrastructure on AWS. They will automate scaling, patching, and incident response while implementing CI/CD pipelines and security policies.

What you will do

• Drive technical direction and maintain high code quality through design and code reviews
• Partner with Engineering Managers to plan and deliver infrastructure projects
• Contribute to the DevOps hiring process
• Design, build, and own cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Automate scaling, patching, incident response, secrets rotation, and day-2 operations
• Deploy and maintain self-service tooling
• Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Develop, document, and enforce security policies across all environments
• Implement and manage secure networking connectivity with a Zero-Trust approach
• Monitor and troubleshoot services using Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud infrastructure
• 3+ years hands-on AWS
• Deep expertise in AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, Elasticache, S3, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront
• Expert-level Terraform
• Experience managing multi-account AWS environments
• Strong Linux systems knowledge
• Container expertise including Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm chart authoring
• Strong scripting skills in Bash and at least one general-purpose language
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI
• Source control mastery with Git (GitHub)
• Experience configuring monitoring/logging stacks: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch
• Nginx configuration, SSL/TLS management, and certificate lifecycle automation

Nice to have

• Terragrunt

About the company

Novo is a series B fintech startup on a mission to increase the GDP of the modern entrepreneur by creating a banking platform for small businesses.