Not specified; not specified; comprehensive medica...
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7+ years cloud infrastructure experience
Formal people management experience
Terraform production expertise
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Koalafi is seeking a Technical Lead for DevOps to oversee the platform engineering team in Richmond, VA. The role demands hands-on leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to translate strategic direction into actionable tasks, all while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
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Job Summary
The role involves owning the delivery and operational health of the platform engineering team while translating strategic direction into an executable backlog.
Candidates must leverage AI tools in their own work and create conditions for engineers to use them effectively and responsibly.
The company offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage, 20 PTO days, 11 paid holidays, and a 401(k) with company matching.
Matching Summary
Match Score: 75
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Koalafi is seeking a Technical Lead for DevOps to oversee the platform engineering team in Richmond, VA. The role demands hands-on leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to translate strategic direction into actionable tasks, all while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
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Salary
Not specified; Not specified; Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, 20 PTO, 11 holidays, 401(k) match, student loan reimbursement
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
7+ years cloud infrastructure experience
Formal people management experience
Terraform production expertise
Kubernetes EKS production operations
AWS fundamentals compute networking IAM
CI/CD pipeline building GitLab GitHub
Observability metrics logging tracing alerting
Nice-to-have
AI-assisted development practices
Istio service mesh technologies
Relational databases AWS RDS Aurora
Serverless architectures AWS Lambda
Infrastructure supporting AI ML workloads
Distributed systems reliability at scale
Key Requirements
7+ years hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
Demonstrated formal people manager or tech lead experience
Strong hands-on Terraform production experience
Strong hands-on Kubernetes EKS production experience
In-person attendance required in Richmond VA or Arlington VA
Work Rights
Must be located within commutable distance to Richmond or Arlington VA; relocation not available