Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer

The Role:

As our Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, you’ll take technical ownership of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. This role blends deep hands-on engineering with functional leadership. You’ll design resilient systems, scale infrastructure, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, platform, and security teams.

This is a senior individual contributor role—not a management position—ideal for someone who wants to shape technical direction, lead by example, and remain deeply technical.

Responsibilities:

• Set technical direction for infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and automation within the DevOps function.

• Architect and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and related tooling.

• Own and improve CI/CD workflows, enabling fast and reliable deployments across teams.

• Mentor and support DevOps engineers, fostering autonomy, quality, and professional growth.

• Define and track operational metrics, including deployment success rate, infrastructure cost, scaling efficiency, and recovery time.

• Drive incident readiness and response, ensuring strong observability and alerting across systems.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to align infrastructure goals with broader product and platform objectives.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering, with 2+ years leading technically (as a tech lead, principal, or architect).

• Deep experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred).

• Proficient with Kubernetes and deployment tooling such as Helm.

• You know CI/CD inside and out—GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, whatever gets the job done.

• You can script in Python, Bash, or something similar.

• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, or ELK/OpenSearch.

• Strong understanding of cloud security practices: IAM, encryption, secure network design, compliance.

• Proven ability to mentor, lead technical initiatives, and drive strategic outcomes.

• Solid understanding of systems performance and reliability, with experience improving deployment reliability and infrastructure scalability.

• Comfortable working in a polyglot environment (e.g., Scala, C#, Python).

• You’ve got strong opinions on infrastructure—and the humility to evolve them.

• You care about security, performance, and doing things the right way.

• You’re collaborative, curious, and not afraid to get in the weeds.

Bonus Skills and Qualifications:

• You’ve worked with Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB, or OpenSearch.

• You’ve designed for multi-region, high-availability environments.

• You’ve played with service mesh tools like Istio.

• AWS certifications? Cool, but not required.

Benefits:

 Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.

• 401k plan with a generous employer contribution.

• Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.

• Medical and dependent care FSA options.

• Flexible PTO policy.

• Parental leave.

• Generous equity offering.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.​

Base Salary Range: $190,000 - $220,000

Bonus Target: 10%