DevOps Team Lead

About Us We are FundCount, a growing international fintech company with a 20-year history and a global office and staff footprint. We provide a unified software solution for investment, general, and partnership accounting and analysis. Our product delivers operational efficiency and insight to investment management professionals — family offices, fund administrators, and alternative fund managers.

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Team Leader to lead our team of engineers, take ownership of our infrastructure, and help us elevate our CI/CD and automation processes to the next level. If you thrive on complex challenges, know how to inspire a team, and possess deep expertise in AWS, we would love to hear from you.

Your Key Responsibilities Team Leadership & Management:

• Team Leadership: Manage a team of DevOps engineers (assigning tasks, tracking execution, conducting reviews).
• Mentorship: Develop the technical and soft skills of your team members, conduct 1-on-1s, and create development plans.
• Processes: Optimize and build efficient workflows within the team (Agile, Kanban/Scrum).
• Infrastructure Management: Coordinate and maintain the rotation for monitoring critical infrastructure alerts, ensuring duties are distributed fairly and evenly across the team, including yourself.
• Strategy: Develop and implement the DevOps methodology, GitOps strategy and infrastructure roadmap.
• Collaboration: Maintain close communication with Development, QA, PMs, and other stakeholders.

Technical & Architectural:

• CI/CD: Develop and maintain pipelines for building, testing, and deploying applications (preferably GitLab CI / Jenkins).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage infrastructure and configurations using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation.
• Containerization: Writing Dockerfiles, building images and orchestrating containers using Docker, Docker Compose. Experience with Kubernetes is a big advantage.
• Monitoring & Logging: Build and maintain a comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging system (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, AWS CloudWatch).
• SRE/DevSecOps: Ensure the reliability (SLA/SLO), fault tolerance, and security of the infrastructure.

What We Expect From You (Must-Haves):

• Leadership Experience: 2+ years as a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Senior DevOps (with mentoring responsibilities) leading a team of 3+ engineers. With a total of 7+ years of experience in DevOps.
• Deep AWS Expertise: Excellent knowledge of key services:
• Compute & Network: EC2, VPC, Route 53, ELB/ALB.
• Containers: EKS, ECS, ECR.
• Storage & DB: S3, EFS, RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), DynamoDB.
• Management & Security: IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager.
• Understanding of networking principles (routing, VLANs, VPNs).
• CI/CD: Proven experience building and supporting complex pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• IaC: strong knowledge of Terraform. Experience with Ansible/Puppet/Chef.
• Containers: Deep knowledge of Docker (architecture, deployment, administration).
• Monitoring: Experience with the Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki/ELK stack.
• System Skills: Excellent Linux and Windows knowledge, proficient in scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Soft Skills: Strong communication, systems thinking, and a proactive attitude.

Availability & Location:

• Located in a time zone between UTC+1 and UTC+4 for effective team synchronization.

What Will Be a Big Plus (Nice-to-Haves)

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional).
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with hybrid-cloud Kubernetes installations.
• Experience with other cloud providers (Azure, GCP).
• Experience with Microsoft services: Azure cloud, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Entra ID, Intune, Exchange, Teams, Defender for Identities, Purview, policies and best practices.
• Knowledge of requirements and experience with SOC2 (or other certifications like ISO/IEC 27001 or HIPAA).

What We Offer

• A competitive salary (discussed based on interview results).
• Remote 5/2 (Monday-Friday) work schedule.