Cloud Engineering/Devops Lead

Position Overview:

Bonfy.AI is seeking a skilled, hands-on Cloud Engineering / DevOps Lead to spearhead our efforts in automating processes, enhancing our cloud infrastructure, and leading our DevOps practices to support our rapid growth and the continuous delivery of high-quality software solutions.

The Cloud Engineering / DevOps Lead will play a pivotal role in shaping our cloud strategy, automating our software delivery processes, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud infrastructure. This position calls for a dynamic and proactive leader capable of driving technological advancements and leading a team of cloud and DevOps engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, implementation, and growth of the cloud infrastructure.
• Architect scalable, secure, robust, and highly available cloud solutions supporting enterprise-wide applications.
• Automate system scaling and management processes
• Implement monitoring tools, to ensure system performance and security; Set up alerts, proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Develop, implement, and oversee DevOps practices including continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), automated testing, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Collaborate with software development, security, and IT teams to ensure seamless and agile operations across pipelines.
• Hire, manage, mentor, and lead a small team of cloud and DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Drive cloud cost optimization strategies to ensure efficient use of cloud resources.
• Stay abreast of emerging cloud technologies and DevOps trends, evaluating and recommending tools and processes that enhance operational efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with security and data protection regulations across cloud services.
• Lead incident management and post-mortem analysis to ensure high availability and reliability of our services.
• Develop strategies for maintaining system uptime and mitigating security risks
  
• Collaborate on capacity planning and demand forecasting.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience (5+ years) in cloud engineering and DevOps roles, with at least 2 years in a leadership position.
• Strong expertise in major cloud service providers (predominantly AWS).
• Proficient with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi), and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Expertise in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Shell).
  
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and motivate team members.
• Deep understanding of networking, security and compliance standards relevant to cloud and software development.
• Exceptional problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.

If you're passionate about performance, reliability and security and want to be part of a rapidly growing startup, we would love to hear from you.