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Job Description:

David Zwirner seeks an experienced and strategic Lead DevOps Engineer to guide the maturation of our infrastructure and provide coverage across European time zones (UTC to UTC +3). This role emphasizes technical leadership, strategic planning, and team mentorship. You will be responsible for enhancing the security, reliability, and resilience of our cloud footprint: primarily AWS, with additional environments including Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, Databricks, and Vercel. As the leader of the DevOps function, you will define and execute the strategic roadmap while remaining hands‑on with your team. We’re seeking a pragmatic leader who will take full ownership of our infrastructure, systematically address technical debt, and champion a culture of operational excellence and security. Candidates must be diligent, extremely organized, and possess excellent prioritization and communication skills.The core engineering team operates on New York hours, so this position will play a key leadership and coverage role for EMEA.

Job Responsibility:

Lead direction and mentor for the DevOps team
set technical direction for infrastructure and security
foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement
Define, own, and drive the Infrastructure & Security Roadmap, prioritizing infrastructure ownership, profound monitoring, disaster recovery, developer experience, and security hardening
Inventory and capture unmanaged resources in Terraform (and CDK/SST where required)
create reusable modules and guardrails
institute code reviews and change management
Design and operate services built on ECS (Fargate), ECR, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, ALB/CloudFront, WAF, Lambda, EventBridge, CloudWatch
improve networking, IAM, and resilience
Modernize critical workloads
design and run disaster recovery drills
automate backups/restore
codify RPO/RTO targets and runbooks
lead incident response and postmortems
Standardize monitoring/alerting with Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, PagerDuty
implement SLOs and noise‑reduction baselines
maintain a humane on‑call rotation
Mature the configuration and rollout of tools like Jit and CrowdStrike
improve firewall/WAF rules
enforce secrets management and least‑privilege access
champion threat modeling and automated scanning
Serve as a key technical voice on the Architecture Review Board
partner with Product and Engineering to align solutions with operational standards and business goals

Requirements:

Legal authorization to work in the UK
Track record in a senior/lead DevOps, SRE, or Platform role, including mentorship of engineers
Expert‑level Terraform (including importing existing resources and taming legacy estates)
Deep, hands‑on experience with AWS (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, Lambda, ALB, WAF, S3, CloudFront, EventBridge, CloudWatch) and production networking/IAM
Proven design and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and container workflows (Docker, ECS Fargate or Kubernetes)
Proficiency with modern observability/monitoring (Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, PagerDuty), incident response, and incident retrospectives
Strong background in cloud security principles and practical hardening
Ability to define and execute a technical roadmap and communicate with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders

Nice to have:

Experience with GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and managed platforms (Databricks, Vercel)
Familiarity with SST/CDK, Next.js/Vercel delivery flows, and performance considerations for web platforms
VPN/zero‑trust networking (e.g., Tailscale)
perimeter hardening and WAF tuning

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Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

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