DevOps Team Lead
FundCount
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights
- Competitive salary (discussed based on interview results)
- Requires 2+ years as a Team Lead and 7+ years total DevOps experience
- Remote 5/2 (Monday-Friday) work schedule
- Deep AWS expertise required
- Must be located in UTC+1 to UTC+4 time zone
- AWS certifications are a plus
Role overview
FundCount, a growing international fintech company, is seeking an experienced DevOps Team Leader to lead a team of engineers, own the infrastructure, and advance CI/CD and automation. The role involves team leadership, infrastructure management, and implementing DevOps practices using AWS, Terraform, Docker, and monitoring tools.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Manage a team of DevOps engineers (assigning tasks, tracking execution, conducting reviews).
- Mentorship: Develop the technical and soft skills of your team members, conduct 1-on-1s, and create development plans.
- Processes: Optimize and build efficient workflows within the team (Agile, Kanban/Scrum).
- Infrastructure Management: Coordinate and maintain the rotation for monitoring critical infrastructure alerts, ensuring duties are distributed fairly and evenly across the team, including yourself.
- Strategy: Develop and implement the DevOps methodology, GitOps strategy and infrastructure roadmap.
- Collaboration: Maintain close communication with Development, QA, PMs, and other stakeholders.
- CI/CD: Develop and maintain pipelines for building, testing, and deploying applications (preferably GitLab CI / Jenkins).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage infrastructure and configurations using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation.
- Containerization: Writing Dockerfiles, building images and orchestrating containers using Docker, Docker Compose. Experience with Kubernetes is a big advantage.
- Monitoring & Logging: Build and maintain a comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging system (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, AWS CloudWatch).
- SRE/DevSecOps: Ensure the reliability (SLA/SLO), fault tolerance, and security of the infrastructure.
Requirements
- Leadership Experience: 2+ years as a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Senior DevOps (with mentoring responsibilities) leading a team of 3+ engineers. With a total of 7+ years of experience in DevOps.
- Deep AWS Expertise: Excellent knowledge of key services:
- Compute & Network: EC2, VPC, Route 53, ELB/ALB
- Containers: EKS, ECS, ECR
- Storage & DB: S3, EFS, RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), DynamoDB
- Management & Security: IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager
- Understanding of networking principles (routing, VLANs, VPNs).
- CI/CD: Proven experience building and supporting complex pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
- IaC: strong knowledge of Terraform. Experience with Ansible/Puppet/Chef.
- Containers: Deep knowledge of Docker (architecture, deployment, administration).
- Monitoring: Experience with the Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki/ELK stack.
- System Skills: Excellent Linux and Windows knowledge, proficient in scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
- Soft Skills: Strong communication, systems thinking, and a proactive attitude.
- Located in a time zone between UTC+1 and UTC+4 for effective team synchronization.
Nice to have
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional).
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
- Experience with hybrid-cloud Kubernetes installations.
- Experience with other cloud providers (Azure, GCP).
- Experience with Microsoft services: Azure cloud, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Entra ID, Intune, Exchange, Teams, Defender for Identities, Purview, policies and best practices.
- Knowledge of requirements and experience with SOC2 (or other certifications like ISO/IEC 27001 or HIPAA).
Benefits
- Remote 5/2 (Monday-Friday) work schedule.
Additional details
- About Us
- We are FundCount, a growing international fintech company with a 20-year history and a global office and staff footprint.
- We provide a unified software solution for investment, general, and partnership accounting and analysis.
- Our product delivers operational efficiency and insight to investment management professionals — family offices, fund administrators, and alternative fund managers.
- We are seeking an experienced DevOps Team Leader to lead our team of engineers, take ownership of our infrastructure, and help us elevate our CI/CD and automation processes to the next level.
- If you thrive on complex challenges, know how to inspire a team, and possess deep expertise in AWS, we would love to hear from you.
- Your Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership & Management:
- Technical & Architectural:
- What We Expect From You (Must-Haves):
- Availability & Location:
- What Will Be a Big Plus (Nice-to-Haves)
- What We Offer
- A competitive salary (discussed based on interview results).
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