Remote Lead Engineer - DevOps & Platform Engineering

Description:

• At Mindera, we are building a world-class DevOps and Platform Engineering practice to power next-generation software delivery across GCP and Azure.
• We are looking for a Lead Engineer – DevOps & Platform Engineering who thrives on designing scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platforms.
• In this high-impact leadership role, you will own end-to-end platform initiatives and help shape our cloud infrastructure strategy.
• You will work closely with cross-functional squads to improve deployment speed, platform resilience, and engineering efficiency.
• Responsibilities include leading the vision and implementation of platform engineering strategy across GCP and Azure, designing and scaling multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure, and owning and evolving CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Crossplane, Terraform, Kustomize, and Helm.
• You will implement GitOps workflows for consistent, repeatable deployments, improve infrastructure reuse, reduce environment sprawl, and optimize cost efficiency.
• Building observability frameworks using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and InfluxDB is also part of your role.
• You will champion DevSecOps by embedding compliance and security as code across all environments and develop reusable templates, internal tools, and self-service capabilities to boost developer productivity.
• Collaboration with product leaders and architects to align infrastructure goals with business outcomes is essential.
• You will mentor engineers and promote a culture of automation, excellence, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• You must have 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with GCP and Azure is required.
• You must have strong experience with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Crossplane.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize is also necessary.
• A strong understanding of CI/CD automation, GitOps workflows, multi-tenant architecture, and infrastructure standardization is essential.
• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and InfluxDB is required.
• You should have deep knowledge of DevSecOps, security-by-design, and compliance automation.
• Proven leadership experience driving platform engineering initiatives is necessary.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering and product teams are required.

Benefits:

• You will enjoy a fun, happy, and politics-free work culture built on the principles of lean and self-organization.
• The opportunity to work with large-scale systems powering global businesses is available.
• We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.
• At Mindera, we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love, and we encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, and work collaboratively.