Lead DevOps Engineer Remote

As a Lead Dev Ops Engineer at Particle
41, you will own the Dev Ops strategy and the design, automation, and operation of the cloud infrastructure that powers our clients’ most complex digital projects. Working closely with cross‑functional teams, you will champion Dev Ops culture and practices, set the standards other teams build on, and ensure the delivery of innovative and high‑quality projects. Your role will also involve mentoring and coaching team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous learning.

• Own the Dev Ops technical roadmap and vision, in collaboration with architects and stakeholders, and align it with business goals.
• Define the "golden path": reference architectures, reusable IaC modules, pipeline templates, and standards that teams across projects adopt.
• Be accountable for platform reliability, security posture, and delivery velocity outcomes across the engagements you lead; measured through SLOs, not just activities performed.
• Represent the Dev Ops practice with clients: participate in discovery and pre‑sales conversations, estimate and scope infrastructure work streams, and advise client leadership on cloud and platform decisions.
• Contribute to growing the practice interview and assess Dev Ops candidates, and help shape team structure and capability development.
• Lead the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, or Pulumi.
• Architect and operate container platforms, including Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and managed container services, to support scalable, resilient workloads.
• Define landing zones, account/subscription structures, and network topologies that balance security, cost, and developer velocity.
• Evaluate and recommend platform tooling and managed services to support business requirements.

• Own the CI/CD strategy and pipeline architecture (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins) that makes releases fast, repeatable, and safe across teams.
• Drive an automation‑first culture across build, test, deployment, and environment provisioning — setting the standard for eliminating manual toil, and staying hands‑on where it matters most.
• Establish Git Ops workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) for declarative, auditable deployments.

• Define the observability strategy - monitoring, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Cloud Watch, Open Telemetry) and drive its adoption across teams.
• Own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering and product teams, and hold teams accountable to them.
• Own incident response, on‑call practices, and blameless post‑incident reviews to continuously improve system resilience.
• Plan for capacity, scalability, and disaster recovery, including backup strategies and multi‑region considerations.

• Own the Dev Sec Ops  posture: define and embed security standards into the delivery pipeline — secrets management, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and policy as code.
• Support compliance initiatives (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) with automated controls and evidence collection.
• Own cloud cost outcomes: drive right‑sizing, autoscaling, and Fin Ops practices, and report spend posture to stakeholders.

• Mentor and coach Dev Ops and software engineers to enhance their technical skills and expertise.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
• Review infrastructure code and pipeline changes, providing constructive feedback to improve quality and maintainability.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance on infrastructure, platform, and…