Remote) DevOps Team Lead

Job Title

Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Fidelity Life is a leading provider of financial security for middle market consumers. With a history of innovation, the company is redefining the life insurance industry with patented products and processes. Fidelity Life pioneered the use of predictive analytics to streamline the new business process and revolutionize the speed that policies can be issued. Established in 1896, Fidelity Life enjoys a long track-record of success and continues to build its reputation of sound fiscal management and customer-focused innovation.

In concert with Fidelity Life, eFinancial is an online and call-center-based insurance agency with a proven direct-to-consumer life insurance model. Using a proprietary and patented sales technology platform, eFinancial's licensed agents help thousands of consumers each day with their unique life insurance needs – often with just a single phone call. To complement this channel, the company recently expanded to offer an entirely digital purchase experience.

Fidelity Life and eFinancial are part of iA Financial Group and are revolutionizing the life insurance industry to make protection more accessible and affordable for everyday Americans. With integrated marketing, product manufacturing, and controlled distribution, the enterprise is uniquely positioned to grow.

• Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, including the team's most complex technical initiatives, while coaching engineers through successful delivery.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines), Terraform infrastructure as code, and internal platform tooling.
• Accountable for the successful execution of complex production deployments while coaching engineers and ensuring repeatable automation.
• Improve deployment safety through automation, pre/post-deploy verification, and rollback.
• Establish the team's technical implementation strategy and continuous improvement roadmap in alignment with enterprise architecture, platform standards, and organizational objectives. Drive enterprise ecosystem improvements through hands-on technical leadership.
• Implement and continuously improve the team's production ownership model in alignment with organizational operational standards.
• Deliver team commitments while supporting organizational operational objectives established by the Director.
• Serve as people leader for the team's engineers, including performance management and goal setting, ongoing feedback, career development, and hiring participation; set and enforce the team's quality standards and review practices.
• Communicate with leadership and across teams, translating both ways; author and present the team's technical documentation and direction.
• Enforce enterprise standards, security best practices, and compliance, including the Environment Management agreement and the change and incident/PIR processes.
• Design, build, and continuously improve the shared engineering platform that enables product teams through automation, IaC, CI/CD, developer tooling self-service capabilities.
• Evaluate, implement, and promote AI-enabled engineering and operational automation that improves developer productivity, deployment quality, incident response, and platform operations.

• B.S. in Computer Engineering or related field, or commensurate real-world Dev Ops experience.
• 7+ years in a Dev Ops role, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering experience, including demonstrated experience leading engineers, owning technical delivery, or managing complex cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Proven experience with AWS services and cloud migration projects.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD tools and modern pipeline automation; experience with Bitbucket Pipelines preferred.
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Strong knowledge of Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket).
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated experience leading incident response, owning production reliability, mentoring engineers, and setting team technical…