Remote Lead DevOps Engineer (part time)

Description:

• IT Labs is seeking a part-time DevOps Lead who combines technical depth with strong leadership and decision-making skills.
• The role involves shaping and maintaining highly resilient, scalable, and secure environments across AWS and Azure.
• The DevOps Lead will define best practices and build smart solutions from the ground up.
• Responsibilities include weaving automation into deployment pipelines and leading a high-performing team with vision and precision.

Requirements:

• The candidate must oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure.
• They should lead a team of DevOps engineers, assigning tasks and ensuring adherence to best practices in deployment, monitoring, and security.
• A minimum of 7 years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience is required, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• A strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, including controllers, operators, telemetry, and observability setup is essential.
• The candidate must have the ability to deploy ArgoCD programmatically, manage day-two operations, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Skills in configuring providers and authentication chains, writing XRDs, and building scalable compositions are necessary.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Terragrunt for cloud provisioning is required.
• The candidate should be capable of designing and operating infrastructure on multiple cloud providers to enable faster development workflows through automation.
• They must build and package apps using reusable GitHub actions as part of CI/CD pipelines to improve overall developer productivity.
• The role requires designing, building, and maintaining a highly available production-grade setup of Kubernetes clusters along with networking, firewall, and endpoints.
• Collaboration with the team to implement monitoring and alerting systems using Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki is essential for improving observability and providing better operational insights.

Benefits:

• The position offers a 6-month contract.
• It is a part-time opportunity requiring 14 hours of work per week.
• Candidates can choose their contract type: Contractor or B2B.
• Employees receive 10 days of paid time off (PTO) after 4 months of working at IT Labs.
• Referral bonuses are available.
• The company provides virtual knowledge sharing sessions, events, and team hangouts.