Lead DevOps Engineer

1 day ago

Kansas City, Missouri, United States Moonshot Solutions Full time

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are building a modern payments infrastructure for the commercial insurance ecosystem. We run lean and move quickly, and our engineers own outcomes end-to-end. As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for keeping our platform resilient, scalable, and secure while enabling developers to ship features quickly and safely. You'll be hands-on with AWS, automation, observability, and multi-tenant architecture.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Cloud Infrastructure

  • Design, build, and operate AWS environments across multiple accounts and regions (Aurora, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway).
  • Balance resilience, cost optimization, and delivery speed in a fast-moving environment.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

  • Own infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation).
  • Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and configuration management.

CI/CD & Developer Experience

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
  • Ensure developers can release quickly with built-in guardrails for quality and security.

Observability & Reliability

  • Implement centralized logging, tracing, and metrics (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Dynatrace/Splunk).
  • Proactively monitor and tune performance; set SLOs and alerts to catch issues early.

Networking & Security

  • Design and secure VPC architectures (IGWs, NATs, Transit Gateway, private/public subnets).
  • Partner with InfoSec to harden infrastructure, enforce IAM least privilege, and ensure PCI compliance.

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

  • Architect multi-region and active/active patterns for critical services (Aurora Global, S3 replication, Route 53 failover).
  • Define and automate backup, DR, and failover strategies.

Collaboration

  • Work closely with developers, product engineers, and program managers in an agile pod model.
  • Provide technical mentorship and influence DevOps best practices across the company.

Documentation & Standards

  • Maintain documentation for infrastructure, runbooks, and incident response.
  • Promote consistency and repeatability across all environments.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • 5–8+ years hands-on DevOps/SRE experience in AWS-heavy environments.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS services: ECS/Fargate, Lambda, Aurora/RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, CloudFront.
  • IaC expertise with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK.
  • Solid background in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
  • Networking knowledge: VPC design, security groups, peering, Transit Gateway.
  • Experience with observability tools (CloudWatch, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Splunk, or similar).
  • Proven ability to deliver secure, compliant environments (PCI/SOC2/HIPAA experience a plus).

BONUS SKILLS

  • Aurora Global Database and multi-region active/active experience.
  • Event-driven architectures (Kinesis, EventBridge).
  • Data pipelines (Glue, Redshift, Snowflake).
  • Kubernetes/EKS or other container orchestration.

SOFT SKILLS

  • Ownership mindset – take initiative and drive work to completion.
  • Clear communicator – explain technical issues and solutions effectively.
  • Pragmatic – focus on automation and outcomes over process for process' sake.
  • Collaborative – thrive in small teams and mentor others.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110, $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

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