DevOps Team Lead (Must Work EST Hours)

Our company is growing rapidly, and our investment in scalable platforms and strong operational foundations is essential to support that growth. We are seeking a DevOps Team Lead who can both manage and technically guide a high?performing DevOps engineering team.

In this role, you will focus on platform health, developer enablement, stability of development/production environments, CI/CD pipeline advancement, and operational efficiency through automation. Due to the operational nature of the position, some off?hours on?call support is required, with strong consideration given to maintaining a healthy work?life balance.

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What We’re Looking For

If you are a DevOps leader who is passionate about the following, we want to speak with you:

• Building a team culture grounded in trust, collaboration, and excellence
• Supporting the growth, effectiveness, and career development of DevOps engineers
• Partnering with architecture, infrastructure, security, and development groups to advance CI/CD and operational strategy
• Treating automation as a craft, not just a task
• Creating CI/CD environments that offer reliable, low?friction delivery paths for developers
• Improving engineering productivity by automating manual or repetitive release?related tasks
• Building comprehensive telemetry and monitoring for application environments
• Driving progress toward continuous delivery and shaping the future of operational automation

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Required Experience

• 5+ years leading a DevOps team, providing both managerial and hands?on technical leadership
• 10+ years as a DevOps engineer with a professional software development background
• Experience working in environments handling sensitive data (e.g., PHI, PII) and navigating strict access controls in partnership with security teams
• Demonstrated thought leadership in DevOps best practices, automation strategies, and software delivery processes
• Strong experience building containerized solutions for applications and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to support on?call escalation and occasionally work a shifted schedule for cross?time?zone support
• Proven ability to troubleshoot platform and application issues, including root?cause analysis and post?mortems
• Flexibility to plan daily team tasking while also coordinating larger cross?team DevOps initiatives
• Must work EST hours

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Technical Skills

Experience with one or more tools/technologies in each area:

CI/CD Platforms

• GitHub, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins, GitLab, GoCD, Octopus, AWS CodeCommit/CodeDeploy
• Android CI/CD experience is a plus (Gradle, Maven)

Cloud & Hosting

• Azure App Services
• Docker containerization
• Kubernetes

Source Control

• GitHub Enterprise, Git, Azure DevOps, TFS

Package Management

• yarn, npm, NuGet Server, GitHub Packages, Azure Artifacts

Infrastructure & Configuration

• IaC tools such as Terraform
• Configuration management best practices

Automation & Scripting

• PowerShell, Python, JavaScript

Monitoring & Observability

• Telemetry platforms, dashboards, reporting, alerting

Agile Collaboration

• Ability to work closely with architecture, security, infra, and development teams within Agile processes

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.