Technical Lead - Devops

Koalafi

Richmond, VA, United States
Not specified; not specified; comprehensive medica...
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7+ years cloud infrastructure experience
Formal people management experience
Terraform production expertise
** 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. **

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

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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. **

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

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