DevOps Lead

Job Description DevOps Lead

Location : Onsite (Preferred Location Morelia. Other Location Mexico City, Guadalajara)

Language Requirement: Native/Fluent Spanish with good English skills

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Lead to provide strategic and technical leadership in building and managing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks. The DevOps Lead will work closely with architecture, backend, and frontend teams to ensure highly available, scalable, and secure application deployments across AWS and Google Cloud Platform, while driving cost optimization and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps function, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and best practices to engineering teams.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using industry-standard tools.
• Define and maintain the infrastructure automation roadmap leveraging Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Drive cloud adoption, scalability, and cost optimization across AWS and Google Cloud Platform environments.
• Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and observability using Dynatrace integrated with AWS and Google Cloud Platform services.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architect, Backend Lead, and Frontend Lead to ensure DevOps practices align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Establish and enforce governance for release management, disaster recovery, and security compliance across multi-cloud deployments.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Stay ahead of emerging DevOps and cloud-native trends to recommend strategic adoption.

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in a DevOps leadership role.
• Strong expertise in AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFormation) and Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Deep expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, AWS CodePipline/CodeBuild, Google Cloud Platform Cloud Build, CircleCI, Travis CI or equivalent).
• Proven experience in monitoring and observability with Dynatrace in cloud-native contexts.
• Solid understanding of networking, load balancing, firewalls, and security best practices across cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and principles in infrastructure and automation.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills (Spanish/English bilingual preferred).

Good to Have

• Experience in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Familiarity with serverless offerings (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform Cloud Functions).
• Experience implementing DevSecOps pipelines with integrated security testing.
• Understanding of chaos engineering and SRE practices.