Lead Devops Engineer

About the Role:

We're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience, who takes full technical ownership of our cloud infrastructure and developer platform. You'll be hands-on — writing code, designing systems, and solving hard infrastructure problems directly.

You'll own Novo's cloud infrastructure end-to-end, drive architecture decisions, and use AI tooling to reduce toil and speed up delivery.

Requirements:

Experience

• 8+ years in cloud infrastructure, with 3+ years hands-on AWS - owning complex systems end-to-end and driving technical decisions across engineering teams

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Deep expertise in AWS services, such as: EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, Elasticache, S3, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront
• Expert-level Terraform (Terragrunt a strong plus), able to define custom internal modules to bootstrap complete solutions
• Confident managing multi-account AWS environments
• Strong Linux systems knowledge — kernel, networking, performance tuning, package management
• Container expertise: Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm chart authoring
• Kubernetes Topology: leverage Taints and tolerations, Affinities, Topology Spreads to build reliable systems

Automation & CI/CD

• Strong scripting skills in Bash and at least one general-purpose language (Python preferred)
• Experience with CI/CD platforms: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI
• Source control mastery: Git (GitHub), branching strategies, code review workflows, GitOps
• Experience authoring reliable automation pipelines: from regular scripting to orchestration workflows using tools such as GitHub Actions or Step Function

Observability & Security

• Hands-on experience with configuring monitoring/logging stacks: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch
• Nginx configuration, SSL/TLS management, and certificate lifecycle automation
• VPN implementation: OpenVPN
• Zero Trust Implementation: Cloudflare Tunnels
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices: IAM least-privilege, secrets management (Vault / AWS Secrets Manager), network segmentation
• Experience with Containers and Kubernetes security: Network Policies, RBAC, Logs and events auditing, containers hardening, Seccomp

Data & Middleware

• Experience supporting relational databases (PostgreSQL), caches (Redis, Memcache), and message buses (Kafka/RedPanda, RabbitMQ), NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, CDN

AI Fluency

• You actively use AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) as part of your daily workflow - not occasionally
• You have applied LLMs or AI tooling to infrastructure problems: incident summarization, code generation, IaC linting, runbook drafting
• You understand the limitations of AI-generated infrastructure code and apply critical review before shipping to production
• Curiosity about where AIOps, LLMOps, and platform engineering are heading — and excitement to help Novo get there first

Novo values diversity as a core tenant of the work we do and the businesses we serve. We are an equal opportunity employer, indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, role-specific, or any other protected characteristic.