DevOps Engineer

Location: Santa Fe, Mexico City (100% on-site)

Tential is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead the design, automation, and optimization of scalable and secure cloud infrastructure and internal platforms. This role combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and the establishment of reusable standards that improve developer experience, CI/CD efficiency, reliability, and platform governance.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture: Design and maintain cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP, along with the CI/CD pipelines that support custom applications and infrastructure services.
• Technical Leadership: Author and propose technical design documents and RFCs, build consensus around architectural decisions, and lead complex enterprise platform initiatives across multidisciplinary teams.
• Enterprise Standards: Establish reusable standards and "golden paths" for workspace and AI administration, application governance, and data security in a complex multi-team environment.
• Developer Experience: Create reusable libraries, modular workflows, SDKs, and platform capabilities that allow internal engineering teams to build safely and efficiently.
• Operational Excellence: Lead modernization efforts that move legacy integrations toward secure, scalable, event-driven architectures.
• Mentoring & Influence: Mentor engineers, advocate for engineering best practices, and communicate technical recommendations to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading complex, enterprise-level platform or DevOps initiatives with multidisciplinary teams.
• Advanced proficiency with Python or Node.js and relevant application frameworks.
• Deep experience designing and integrating APIs to build scalable platform solutions.
• Strong architectural experience designing multi-tenant environments with appropriate isolation, governance, and global standards.
• Hands-on experience with serverless computing, API gateways, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, or comparable tools.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and CI/CD principles.
• Excellent technical documentation skills and the ability to advocate for technical best practices with engineers and executives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading development or administration of collaboration platforms at a scale of 10,000+ users.
• Contributions to open-source libraries or community tools.
• Experience in the gaming industry or another environment supporting complex creative or digital-production workflows.