[Remote] Lead Engineer, DevOps & SRE
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company that connects consumers with leading brands through data-driven content and technology. They are seeking a Lead Engineer, DevOps & SRE to own and evolve their cloud infrastructure and build the SRE function from the ground up, ensuring reliability, security, and cost control.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Launch Potato's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and compliance posture
- Build the SRE function from the ground up so product teams can ship faster without compromising reliability, security, or cost control
- Stand up the SRE practice from scratch: on-call rotation, PagerDuty configuration, SLA/SLO definitions for core infrastructure services, runbook library, and observability dashboards that tie site performance to business metrics
- Complete the AWS multi-account migration: move production workloads to an isolated account with zero unplanned downtime
- Deliver SOC 2 Type I audit-ready infrastructure evidence package: own the technical controls implementation end-to-end
- Version and publish the Terraform module library: (30+ modules) to a private registry to eliminate ad hoc git consumption by product teams
- Implement automated deployment rollback for ECS and Lambda: gate production on integration test passage
- Stand up monthly cost reporting to leadership: budget anomaly detection, savings plan recommendations, spend by service/team/environment
Skills
- 5+ years of production AWS infrastructure experience with deep Terraform expertise
- Hands-on experience building the SRE function from scratch and had complete ownership
- Experience with a multi-site company where PaaS or microservices are required
- CI/CD pipeline ownership in one or more previous roles
- PagerDuty experience and standing up an on-call rotation
- 5+ years hands-on with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipeline ownership, and SRE tooling (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, PagerDuty or equivalent) in a production environment
Benefits
- Profit-sharing bonus
- Competitive benefits
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