DevOps Team Lead

At Semperis, our mission is to be a Force for Good. Starting with being a great place to work. We believe that when people feel valued, supported, and empowered, they do their best work. That’s why we focus on creating an employee experience rooted in purpose, growth, and balance. Semperis has been recognized as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Cybersecurity Companies by the Inc. 5000, a DUNS 100 Top Startup to Work For, and a multi-year Inc. Best Workplace awardee.

This is a hybrid position based in either Dallas, TX, Ottawa, Canada, or the New Jersey area, requiring three days of in-office presence per week

Position: DevOps Team Leader Engineer

We’re seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer Team Leader to join our Engineering organization and take ownership of the deployment, orchestration, and secure operations of our cutting-edge identity and security products. You’ll lead a global team while staying intimately involved in the technical delivery and evolution of our DevOps strategy.

This is a player-coach role: you'll architect and implement solutions directly, while also guiding, mentoring, and enabling a team of engineers to operate at the highest standards of DevOps excellence.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of build and release pipelines

• Provide day-to-day guidance and direct support to a team of three global DevOps engineers

• Conduct 1:1s, deliver performance reviews, and promote professional development across the team

• Architect and execute cloud deployment strategies for optimized performance and cost efficiency

• Review code, infrastructure configurations, and documentation to uphold best practices

• Train and mentor developers and stakeholders in Azure DevOps and Git workflows

• Advocate for DevOps culture and best practices across engineering and IT teams

• Collaborate with Infrastructure engineers to diagnose and resolve deployment challenges

• Document and communicate procedures with clarity and consistency

• Troubleshoot issues during deployment and provide production support in staging and live environments

• Represent the team in cross-functional meetings with insightful recommendations

• Research and evaluate emerging technologies for possible adoption

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

• Design and manage Azure infrastructure using IaC principles with Terraform and Terragrunt

• Maintain AKS clusters with Istio for secure, scalable service-to-service communication

• Manage Azure resources such as networking, Key Vault, Blob Storage, and CosmosDB

• Configure OpenSearch clusters for efficient logging and data indexing

• Optimize CosmosDB performance with scaling strategies and cost oversight

DevOps Practices & Automation

• Lead the development of robust CI/CD pipelines.

• Establish and maintain GitOps workflows via ArgoCD

• Author and maintain automation scripts (primarily Bash) to streamline operations

• Continuously evaluate and enhance deployment and developer processes

Security & Compliance

• Implement Zero Trust security architecture using Azure PIM and RBAC

• Define and enforce least privilege access models and security best practices

• Configure Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and manage network security in Azure

• Ensure alignment with compliance frameworks and standards

Monitoring & Reliability

• Deploy observability tooling using OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights

• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response protocols

• Lead post-incident analysis and drive implementation of long-term fixes

• Define and maintain reliability objectives, SLAs, and error budgets

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in SaaS or cloud-native environments

• 2+ years in a formal engineering leadership role, including people management and performance reviews

• Proven expertise with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services

• Strong hands-on experience with:

• Terraform and Terragrunt

• Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm

• Istio Service Mesh