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SalesAi · 2 months ago

Lead DevOps Engineer

Indianapolis, IN

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

SalesAi is revolutionizing the way companies sell and serve with cutting-edge, AI-driven technology. They are seeking a skilled and experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to lead efforts in scaling systems and accelerating feature delivery by overseeing the CI/CD pipeline and driving infrastructure-as-code adoption.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentInformation TechnologySoftwareSoftware Engineering

Responsibilities

Collaborate: Bridge the gap between development and operations teams to drive rapid, reliable, and secure software delivery

Incident and Crisis Management: Be the calm, empathetic voice in the storm while driving decisive leadership to ensure fast, quality resolution. Develop and manage incident response processes

Monitoring and Observability: ensure we have the appropriate abilities to oversee and leverage monitoring, tracing, and logging tools to quickly diagnose root cause while having an effective continuous insight to overall operations and risk

Pipeline Operations: Ensure automated builds, tests, and deployments are running successfully. Troubleshooting failed deployments or builds and directing the team on fixes. Continuously track and improve the developer’s experience and ensure the best strategic fit for our overall pipeline

Cost Management: Monitor cloud usage and resources to optimize infrastructure costs without compromising performance or reliability

Key Performance Measurement: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs), such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (MTTR), and planning continuous improvement initiatives based on the data. Create and maintain metrics and reporting performance dashboards, logs, and monitoring alerts to proactively identify and address issues related to system reliability, scalability, and security

Incident Avoidance: Enable blameless post mortems (PIRs) and focus on the root cause and continuous improvements translating lessons learned into concrete, prioritized engineering work to improve the overall operating environment and architecture

Qualification

DevOps architectureCI/CD pipelineGoogle Cloud PlatformTeam LeadershipGitHub ActionsDockerMonitoring toolsIncident ManagementChange AgentBachelor’s degreeCross-Functional CollaborationCommunicationSolid organizational skills

Required

Proven experience as a Lead DevOps Engineer, ideally in a fast paced startup or growth company environment with experience creating DevOps from the ground up

Strong hands-on experience with: GitHub (version control), GitHub Actions (CI orchestration), DataDog (Logging, alerting, and instrumentation), Google Cloud Build (build orchestration and image management), Docker (containerization), Nx Cloud (Artifact caching and build orchestration), CodeCov, Jest, Jacoco, Junit, Playwright (Code coverage and testing frameworks), Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Tasks, Container Registry, Cloud Run Services, Cloud Sql / Cloud Spanner

Strong understanding of DevOps architecture, design patterns, and best practices

Expertise in DevOps processes, experience creating and maintaining these processes, and experience with Kaizen, Six Sigma, ITIL or other quality systems and frameworks is a plus

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication: The ability to break down silos and foster a culture of open communication and shared responsibility between development, operations, QA, and security teams

Team Leadership and Mentoring: Experience in leading, managing, and mentoring a team of DevOps/Platform engineers, setting technical direction, and driving performance

Strategic Planning and Alignment: The capacity to define and execute a comprehensive DevOps strategy that aligns with the organization's overarching business goals for speed, quality, and cost optimization

Change Agent: The skill to drive cultural change, manage resistance, and champion continuous improvement in processes and technology adoption across the organization

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and functions

Solid organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience