DevOps Lead

We are seeking a DevOps Lead to be embedded with our customer, where you will lead a small DevOps team while remaining hands-on with infrastructure and deployment initiatives. You will work closely with the customer's technical teams and stakeholders to design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS and Terraform, combining strategic leadership with direct technical contribution. This is a fully remote role offering the opportunity to drive DevOps excellence and innovation within a dynamic aviation software environment.

Key responsibilities & duties include:

Lead and mentor a small DevOps team embedded with the customer, providing technical guidance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Design, implement and maintain AWS infrastructure and Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code solutions that support the customer's mission-critical systems

Collaborate with the customer's stakeholders and technical teams to understand requirements, plan deployments and ensure alignment with business objectives

Contribute hands-on to infrastructure projects, deployment pipelines and operational tasks alongside your team

Drive best practices around infrastructure automation, monitoring, security and disaster recovery across the customer's platforms

Manage communication with the customer's stakeholders, providing regular updates on progress, risks and recommendations

Identify and implement improvements to the customer's DevOps processes, tooling and infrastructure efficiency

Required Experience:

5+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership of technical teams

Strong proficiency with AWS services and hands-on experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Experience working in customer-facing or embedded roles within technical teams

Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization and cloud-native application deployment

Nice to have:

Experience in the aviation, travel or highly regulated industries

Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms

Knowledge of data pipeline and AI infrastructure considerations