Lead DevOps Engineer

The role is for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to support a digital health company's cloud infrastructure modernization across AWS and Azure, leading a team and ensuring security, compliance, and resilience.

Location: Remote (US)

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
• Lead and manage a team of DevOps engineers — assigning tasks and ensuring best practices in deployment, monitoring, and security
• Define and enforce CI/CD processes and infrastructure automation standards using Terraform
• Own the implementation and governance of Landing Zones in both AWS and Azure
• Ensure HIPAA compliance and security policies are followed across all environments
• Drive adoption of observability tools like DataDog and establish logging standards
• Coordinate incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure issues
• Build SLA frameworks for critical services and define strategies for auto-scaling, failure recovery, and disaster recovery
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align DevOps strategies with business needs
• Review and approve technical documentation produced by the team

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms
• Proven experience leading cloud workload and service migrations
• Deep expertise in Terraform and infrastructure as code
• Experience leading CI/CD practices across multiple environments
• Strong container orchestration skills — Kubernetes and Docker
• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization, governance frameworks, and tagging strategies
• Experience with secret management tools — AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability solutions — Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor
• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills