Lead DevOps Engineer — The Suite (via Remotesome)

About The Suite

We are a team of 80+ of the world’s greatest community builders and technologists.

We build high-quality and highly-curated professional communities. We run three of these communities today, including our flagship The L Suite, which is a private, invite-only community for General Counsels / Chief Legal Officers and their teams at high-growth tech companies and venture funds. We also run The F Suite (for CFOs) and The E Suite (for CEOs), with more in the pipeline.

We currently have 5,000+ paid members across our communities, representing C-Suite executives and their deputies from most of today’s leading tech companies (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Airbnb, Slack, Coinbase, Uber, Notion, Bolt, Figma, Airtable, Dropbox, Bilt, Datadog, etc.) and venture funds (e.g., a16z, Softbank, Tiger, Accel, Thrive, Battery Ventures, FirstMark, Kleiner Perkins, Insight, etc.).

The Role

We are seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to take ownership of our production infrastructure and drive scalable, secure operations across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. In this role, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of CI/CD pipelines, implement robust logging and monitoring, oversee incident response, and enforce SOC 2 controls. As the DevOps roadmap owner, you will set strategic direction for a small team while contributing directly as a senior engineer, balancing startup velocity with technical rigor. Clear written communication and the ability to collaborate with US-based stakeholders are essential.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve all production infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform with a security-first mindset

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, container builds, and automated security scanning solutions.

• Implement and maintain SOC 2 controls, including logging, access, change management, backups, disaster recovery, and vulnerability management.

• Manage centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production systems.

• Translate security and compliance requirements into technical architectures and workflows.

• Define and execute the DevOps strategy and delivery roadmap for a small team while acting as a senior individual contributor.

• Break down high-level goals into pragmatic, sequenced delivery plans suitable for a startup environment.

• Lead, mentor, and support other DevOps engineers, strengthening existing infrastructure foundations.

• Communicate effectively in writing and collaborate closely with US-based stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience operating and scaling production SaaS infrastructure.

• Deep expertise with AWS services, including IAM, VPC, RDS or Aurora, S3, EKS, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and complete infrastructure ownership.

• Expertise in CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar), containerization, and security scanning tools.

• Demonstrated implementation of SOC 2 controls in live production systems.

• Proven capability in logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

• Ability to translate security and compliance needs into technical and operational processes.

• Experience setting and executing DevOps strategies and roadmaps for small teams.

• Startup experience with a track record of stabilizing and hardening underbuilt infrastructure.

• Proficiency in English at a C2 level is required.

Required Skills

• AWS S3 — Advanced
• Kubernetes — Advanced
• CI/CD — Advanced
• SOC 2 — Intermediate

Benefits

• Fully Remote
• Flexible Hours
• Equity Compensation
• Remote Office Budget
• Paid Time Off
• Health Coverage

Compensation

$75K – $100K/year

Location: Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Portugal

Timezone: UTC-10 to UTC-5