Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

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What You'll Do

Successful candidate will collaborate with various product, infrastructure, operations, security, and production control teams to elicit and fulfill technical requirements, while driving site reliability, system observability, and operational excellence across the platform.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Guides the implementation using CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes environment

• Directs review, configuration, and execution of Terraform and Ansible automation pipelines delivered by product teams

• Guides the setup of common infrastructure platforms like multi-region Kubernetes and Kafka clusters

• Elicits requirements for application deployment and sizing to manage expected workloads

• Defines and enforces Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets in collaboration with product teams

• Leads blameless post-mortems and drives resolution of action items to reduce repeat incidents

• Designs and implements observability frameworks covering metrics, logs, and distributed tracing across all platform services

• Drives toil reduction initiatives by identifying and automating repetitive operational work

• Partners with product teams to embed reliability requirements and non-functional requirements (NFRs) early in the software development lifecycle

• Monitors application performance and tunes systems working with product teams

• Confers with product team leads and practitioners to create deployment and reliability plans

• Confers with Enterprise Architecture and Renaissance architecture teams to devise implementation architecture

• Promotes standards across application configuration towards the highest security posture

• Collaborates with access management and security teams on setting up roles and permissions using least privilege strategies

• Collaborates with integration/performance testing teams to leverage integrated release testing in the Release Acceptance environment

• Collaborates with production controls teams on monitoring, failover, logging, and alerting strategies

• Owns and continuously improves incident response runbooks, on-call rotations, and escalation procedures

• Conducts capacity planning and load forecasting to proactively address scalability needs

• Implements and validates infrastructure failover scenarios

• Confers with Network team on all connectivity plans and issue resolution (including between on-premises and AWS)

• Follows and enables program-level agile practices for efficient collaboration and delivery

• Develops documentation for ORT technical infrastructure, architecture, and reliability support

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• [Required] Understanding of Kanban and/or Agile methodologies

• [Required] Familiarity with SRE principles as defined by Google SRE practices (error budgets, toil elimination, reliability hierarchy)

• [Required] Able to succeed in a fast-paced environment with frequent changes

• [Required] Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences

• [Required] Self-starter — takes initiative to research, learn, and deliver; anticipates the play

• [Required] Team player — humble, collaborative, and focused on making the entire team succeed

Technical Skills & Background

• [Required] AWS EC2, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Hashicorp Vault

• [Required] Observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or equivalent

• [Required] Incident management platforms and on-call tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, OpsGenie)

• [Required] Microservices and streaming data-intensive application architecture