DevOps Engineer

Who you are

• An Experienced Leader: You have 7+ years of DevOps experience, with at least 2 years spent leading teams or major technical initiatives. You know how to guide a project from a whiteboard sketch to a production reality
• A Polyglot: You are a master of at least one programming language (Python is great, but we’re particularly excited if you speak TypeScript on Node.js)
• Cloud Native: AWS is your playground. If you also have experience with GCP, that’s a massive bonus
• An IaC Purist: You believe everything should be version-controlled. You have deep experience with Terraform and Terragrunt
• A Distributed Systems Guru: You have strong working knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architectures, including hands-on experience with technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or comparable message brokers
• A Pipeline Expert: You have a proven track record of maintaining sophisticated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions experience is a plus)
• A Collaborator: You have a "knack" for collaboration. You can translate complex infra-speak into actionable insights for product and dev teams
• Growth Minded: You have an insatiable desire for self-improvement and are constantly looking for ways to make your solutions—and yourself—better

What the job involves

• We are looking for a Tech Lead, DevOps Engineer who views "infrastructure as code" as an art form and thrives on the challenge of making complex systems feel invisible to the developers using them
• As the Tech Lead, you will be the primary architect of our deployment ecosystem. You won’t just be "fixing servers"; you will be designing the foundation that enables vibe coding company-wide—an environment where ideas move from an employee's brain to production with zero friction and maximum confidence
• Architect the "Vibe Coding" Ecosystem: Build the infrastructure and internal platform that allows our employees to create applications and leverage AI and high-level automation to accomplish tasks at the speed of thought, making their day-to-day work faster
• Propel Engineering Velocity: You’ll be the force multiplier for our entire dev team, automating everything from environment provisioning to testing, ensuring our team goes faster every single day
• Define the Strategic North Star: You will own and deliver a vision for a modern cloud-native stack that balances cutting-edge AI integration, airtight security, and radical automatio
• Creative Architecting: Work alongside a high-caliber engineering team to architect and build deployment solutions that are as elegant as they are reliable, maintainable, and scalable
• System Design: Implement solutions for new and existing products that align with Industrious’ overall data strategy, ensuring that our members and employees experience zero downtime and peak performance
• CI/CD Orchestration: Mastermind our CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and modern build tools to ensure a seamless flow into our AWS cloud environment
• Security & Health: Act as the guardian of our stack—improving application monitoring, performing regular maintenance/upgrades, and evolving our security posture to stay ahead of the curve
• Future-Proofing: You don’t just solve for today. You anticipate the needs of a growing global business and implement solutions that scale effortlessly
• Culture Building: As a Lead, you will mentor other engineers and contribute to a culture of radical transparency, continuous learning, and high-performance "vibes."
• The First 30 Days: Deep Immersion & Vision Casting
• The Deep Dive: You’ll embed yourself within our engineering culture, mastering our current stack and understanding the unique pulse of our distributed systems
• Architectural Audit: You’ll identify the "friction points"—spotting opportunities to streamline our architecture and enhance our security posture
• Drafting the North Star: You’ll begin articulating a long-term vision for our infrastructure that prioritizes developer joy, security, and radical automation
• The First 60 Days: Driving Velocity
• Leveling Up DX: You’ll actively work with your DevOps teammates to ship improvements that make our developers’ lives easier, faster, and more creative
• Observability as an Intuition: You’ll begin overhauling our monitoring systems, moving us toward a world of real-time metrics where system health is visible at a glance
• The Vibe Coding Blueprint: You’ll research and test the foundational tools required to bring "vibe coding" to the entire organization, ensuring security and standards are baked in from the start
• The First 90 Days: Ownership & The Pilot Phase
• Domain Authority: You are now the recognized lead for our Developer Experience and Monitoring initiatives, driving measurable improvements in how we build and observe
• Launching the Pilot: You’ll roll out our first "vibe coding" solution to a select pilot group, gathering feedback and proving that infrastructure can be both invisible and empowering
• Strategic Alignment: You’ll have a seat at the table with our Cyber-security team, ensuring our growth never comes at the expense of our safety
• By the End of Your First Year: A New Era of Productivity
• The Productivity Multiplier: You will have successfully enabled "vibe coding" across all departments, leading to a significant increase in global company productivity
• Predictive Stability: Our monitoring is no longer reactive. We can now anticipate most potential issues before they impact a single user
• The Enhanced Developer: Our engineering team is now equipped with a world-class DX ecosystem that has boosted their individual productivity significantly, allowing them to spend more time innovating and less time "setting up testing environment."

Benefits

• Healthcare - We care deeply about the physical and emotional well-being of our employees. That’s why we offer a range of plan options through United Healthcare, including a variety of employer-paid plans that provide coverage for employees and their families
• Flexible Vacation Time - At Industrious we have a flexible PTO policy. This encourages people to enjoy life outside of work, recharge and look after their mental and emotional health. Take the time you need to have a balanced and fulfilling personal life
• Paid Parental Leave - Families come in all shapes, sizes, and types. We welcome each new addition with generous paid leave so that you can bond with your new child
• Learning & Development Grant - We’re committed to your professional development. We’re proud to offer a yearly grant so that you can take a class or learn a new skill
• Employee Resource Groups - These groups support, promote, and celebrate team members united around shared characteristics or life experiences