Senior DevOps Lead

About Worldly

Worldly is the world’s most comprehensive impact intelligence platform — delivering real data to businesses on impacts within their supply chain. Worldly is trusted by 40,000 global brands, retailers, and manufacturers to provide the single source of ESG intelligence they need to accelerate business and industry transformation. Through strategic and meaningful customer relationships, Worldly provides key insights into supplier performance, product impact, trend analysis, and compliance.

When a company wants to change how business is done, we enable that systemic shift. Backed by a dedicated global team of individuals aligned by values, Worldly proudly operates as a public benefit corporation with backing from mission-aligned investors. Read our story for more information.

We re seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Senior Dev Ops Lead to take ownership of our infrastructure and lead our transition from purely external Dev Ops services to a hybrid internal & external team model. This is a critical leadership role that requires both strategic thinking and the ability to roll up your sleeves—you ll spend 30% of your time leading and mentoring a team of 9 contractors with varying skill levels and 50% architecting and implementing solutions yourself, with 20% for high-level thinking and operational planning.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in network and UNIX-like systems operations and software engineering, and have settled into Dev Ops as their current passion. You ll report directly to the VP of Engineering and have an immediate impact on infrastructure stability, security posture, and operational excellence across our AWS-based platform. Our infrastructure is mature with well-established Infrastructure as Code practices, and is actively growing to support new business needs and product capabilities.

• Lead by example—architect and implement infrastructure solutions using Terraform and AWS best practices
• Take ownership from external Dev Ops team, stabilizing operations and establishing internal team processes
• Define project scope, break down complex initiatives, and guide contractors through execution
• Evolve our IaC practices and ensure consistency across the growing infrastructure
• Own AWS infrastructure security, compliance, and cost optimization
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support application needs and performance goals
• Develop infrastructure roadmap to support scaling and new product requirements
• Mentor contractors with varying skill levels, elevating team capabilities
• Evolve and refine monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes

• 10+ years of Dev Ops/SRE experience with at least 3 years in a lead or senior role
• Deep expertise in AWS services including ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, databases, networking, and security
• Strong Terraform experience—you write clean, modular, reusable IaC
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (ECS/EKS)
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Build)
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Data Dog, Cloud Watch)
• Experience with multiple production database technologies such as Couch
  
  DB/Mongo Db, Open Search, Postgre
  
  SQL in production environments
• Strong understanding of network architecture, security best practices, and systems operations
• Proven ability to lead teams through both project definition and technical execution
• Excellent communication skills—you can translate technical concepts for various audiences
• Self-starter mentality with ability to work independently and drive initiatives to completion

• Exposure to GCP and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Background managing external contractor teams
• Experience scaling infrastructure in growing organizations (100-300 employees)

• Comprehensive benefits package - 100% of employee premiums covered by Worldly
• Statutory benefits provided in accordance with local labor laws for employees outside the U.S., administered through Deel
• Company-sponsored 401 (k) with up to 4% match for US-based employees
• Growth Opportunities
• Equipment…