Senior DevOps Engineer operating AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure for Modern Campus’s higher - education platform. Automating deployments, improving reliability, and supporting customer - facing products.
About the role
- Lead DevOps Engineer managing a distributed team across North America and India. Transforming engineering discipline with a focus on AI-enabled practices and efficient CI/CD workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a distributed DevOps team spanning North America and India, including an infrastructure security-focused sub-team.
- Serve as the primary technical decision-maker for the DevOps function — architecture, tooling choices, prioritization, and delivery standards.
- Partner with Engineering, QA, and Product leadership to reduce delivery friction and improve DORA metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, change fail rate).
- Represent the DevOps function at the leadership level, including communicating roadmap, risks, and platform health to the Head of Technology and broader Technology leadership.
- Own the self-hosted GitLab platform — upgrades, runner fleet management (VMware-hosted and cloud), and platform health.
- Drive maturity of the CI/CD Catalog and shared template library (ci-common/gitlab-templates), ensuring teams can self-serve without bespoke pipeline configuration.
- Evolve pipeline capabilities: container image scanning, IaC static analysis, SAST, SBOM/CVE generation, and MR-triggered security scans.
- Establish and enforce merge request standards, branch protection policies, and CODEOWNERS governance across the GitLab organization.
- Own EKS day-2 operations: cluster upgrades, node group management, networking (private API endpoints, Cloudflare tunnel integration), and reliability posture.
- Manage multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS (primary) and GCP, including resource lifecycle, cloud cost optimization, and account governance.
- Lead the rationalization of legacy infrastructure (on-prem Nexus, Concourse CI) and drive the migration to cloud-native equivalents where appropriate.
- Maintain and improve the Terraform IaC estate, including drift detection, module governance, and GitLab CI-driven plan/apply workflows.
- Drive the rollout and stabilization of SSO federation across vCenter/VMware, AWS IAM Identity Center, and Azure AD groups.
- Own the security tooling stack: Qualys vulnerability scanning, Defender alert triage, container scanning pipelines, and SBOM/CVE reporting for product releases.
- Establish and enforce secrets management standards using 1Password across pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Ensure data security in transit and at rest as automation and self-service capabilities expand.
- Build and own the internal developer platform vision — reducing cognitive load on engineers, QA, and program managers through self-service tooling and automation.
- Lead the observability stack: Grafana (Helm-deployed on EKS), alerting pipelines, and infrastructure/application performance monitoring.
- Drive a metrics-first culture for the DevOps function, using DORA metrics and custom platform health indicators to guide roadmap decisions.
- Evaluate and recommend tooling investments that improve developer experience, pipeline performance, and release confidence.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive DevOps/platform engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or staff-level role.
- Deep, hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD:
- - Self-hosted GitLab administration (upgrades, runners, platform governance)
- - Building and maintaining shared CI/CD templates and catalogs
- - Pipeline security integrations (SAST, container scanning, IaC analysis)
- Production Kubernetes experience (preferably EKS):
- - Cluster upgrades, node management, networking, and RBAC
- - Day-2 operations and reliability engineering
- - GitLab-driven deployment workflows
- Multi-cloud infrastructure proficiency across AWS and at least one of GCP/Azure:
- - AWS IAM, Organizations, SSO/IAM Identity Center
- - VPC networking, EKS, ECR, and cloud cost optimization
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform:
- - Module design, remote state, drift detection
- - CI/CD-driven plan/apply pipelines
- Identity and access management:
- - Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID — SSO federation and group-based access
- - Experience federating VMware vCenter, AWS, or similar platforms with AD/LDAP
- Security tooling experience: vulnerability scanning (Qualys or equivalent), secrets management (1Password, Vault, or equivalent), SBOM/CVE pipeline integration.
- Fluency in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, or similar) for automation and tooling.
- Strong written and verbal communication — able to write clear design documents, drive technical alignment, and represent the team in cross-functional and leadership conversations.
- Demonstrated experience using AI tooling in an engineering context — whether in pipelines, developer tooling, observability, or infrastructure automation — and a clear point of view on where it creates genuine leverage vs. hype.
Benefits
- Benefits
- Equity participation
- Professional development allowance
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