Lead DevOps Engineer

About the PositionThe Lead DevOps is a key member of the R&D leadership team and will support our global engineering and technology teams across the lines of business, as well as develop and implement strategies that support the growth plans of FiscalNote. They will work with the global technology teams to assist in driving strategic alignment, enhance channels of communication, develop and run processes for tactical execution, and support a shared technology practice and DevOps culture across the organization. They will pioneer industry-leading technologies and toolsets to enable our developers to innovate in record time. They will have the opportunity to create, evolve, scale, integrate, fortify, and automate our deployment pipeline and core services to solve unique and constantly-iterating engineering challenges. 
About the Core Platform TeamThe Core Platform team, inside the R&D organization, is responsible for working with R&D teams across the global FiscalNote organization. Core Platform is responsible for owning and evolving common tools, libraries, standards and practices that are shared by numerous teams with similar needs. By understanding the team’s needs and leveraging best practices, Core Platform can become a force multiplier for the R&D organization.
About YouYou understand that in order to operate most effectively, technology teams need clear pathways of communication and decision-making, alignment with each other and the broader organization, understanding of operational processes, tools, and expectations, and strategic and tactical support. You’re comfortable around ambiguity with a high degree of autonomy and are excited about solving complex, open-ended problems by distilling the complexity as simply as necessary to make things work. You understand where you need to step in to create more structure when/where you need to push things forward, and when/where to let things happen organically. You become uncomfortable when you notice anything is amiss, identify blockers and choose to relentlessly seek out solutions. Along the way, you’re capable of communicating what you’re thinking to both technical and non-technical audiences and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

What to Expect in This Position

• Create and lead strategic initiatives to evolve FiscalNote’s infrastructure, architecture, and development processes
• Automate, maintain, and scale production environments across multiple cloud providers
• Leverage your extensive knowledge of security and compliance best practices to ensure that our systems and data are secure
• Continually monitor and ensure the health and uptime of our production environment and its dependencies
• Build and evolve the infrastructure to meet customer and internal SLAs
• Work in a highly-collaborative, fast-paced environment 
• Establish and facilitate a framework to support strategic planning, executing, and accountability against R&D needs across the organization
• Use and build out continuous deployment tools in order to provide a seamless deployment process to all environments
• Work closely with the global R&D teams to shape the technology roadmap
• Present project proposals, progress, and results to stakeholders and senior leadership
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and ways to evolve existing technologies
• Mentor team members and foster career development within the DevOps team

What Sets You Apart

• 5+ years experience in leading DevOps in a technology organization 
• A proven strong ability to strategically plan and operationally execute 
• Experience in establishing, implementing, and socializing processes and best practices in a collaborative manner with both technical and non-technical stakeholders 
• Strong comprehension of SaaS and PaaS application architectures
• Extensive experience building internal tools and designing pipelines to support development in a continuous integration environment
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages with Python, Bash, and JavaScript preferred
• Extensive experience with Linux-based systems, containers, and the ability to quickly troubleshoot production issues
• Extensive knowledge of cloud-based environments (Amazon AWS preferred)
• Understanding of code version control and experience with one or more repositories (Github, SVN, Bitbucket, etc.)
• Experience with building, migrating, maintaining, and orchestrating containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, etc).
• Knowledge and experience in building and maintaining one or more continuous integration/deployment tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL/Aurora, and Amazon Redshift.
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