Lead DevOps Engineer III

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of Updox. We are currently looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer III in United States.

This role offers the opportunity to design and build a modern cloud platform that empowers development and operations teams to work faster, safer, and more autonomously. As a Lead DevOps Engineer III, you will architect and maintain containerized workloads, automate infrastructure with IaC, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to drive scalability and reliability. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and DevOps teams to deliver a self-service platform that improves developer experience while embedding security, compliance, and observability at every layer. This is an ideal opportunity for someone passionate about building resilient, automated cloud systems at enterprise scale.

Accountabilities

• Design, deploy, and manage containerized workloads on AWS ECS using Terraform and Spacelift to enable scalable, automated infrastructure.
• Build and enhance self-service developer platforms with Backstage, empowering engineering teams to deploy services autonomously.
• Implement best practices for observability, security, compliance, and reliability across multi-environment cloud systems.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for testing, security scanning, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Automate configuration and orchestration with Ansible to deliver repeatable and version-controlled infrastructure patterns.
• Embed role-based access control, policy enforcement, and security controls into infrastructure and workflows.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions while defining SLAs, SLOs, and incident response processes.
• Troubleshoot performance, availability, and scalability issues while supporting production and non-production environments.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing, migrating, and managing AWS ECS-based containerized environments in enterprise production settings.
• Expertise with Terraform for infrastructure as code, and experience using policy-as-code tools like Spacelift.
• Strong hands-on experience building automated CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of Backstage.io for creating self-service developer portals.
• Proficiency with Ansible for configuration management and infrastructure automation.
• Deep understanding of networking, IAM policies, secrets management, and cloud security best practices.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch or New Relic.
• Ability to resolve performance and scaling issues in cloud-native environments.
• Nice to have: experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), FinOps cost optimization, SRE principles, and policy-as-code tools (OPA, Sentinel).

Benefits

• Competitive base compensation ($150,000–$180,000 USD annually depending on location and experience)
• Remote work flexibility within your country of employment
• Robust health and wellness benefits, including an annual wellness stipend
• 401(k) with up to 4% match and immediate vesting
• Flexible and generous time-off (FTO) policy
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.

When you apply, your profile goes through our AI-powered screening process designed to identify top talent efficiently and fairly.
🔍 Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analyzing your skills, experience and achievements.
📊 It compares your profile to the job’s core requirements and past success factors to determine your match score.
🎯 Based on this analysis, we automatically shortlist the 3 candidates with the highest match to the role.
🧠 When necessary, our human team may perform an additional manual review to ensure no strong profile is missed.

The process is transparent, skills-based, and free of bias — focusing solely on your fit for the role.
Once the shortlist is completed, we share it directly with the company that owns the job opening. The final decision and next steps (such as interviews or additional assessments) are then made by their internal hiring team.

Thank you for your interest!