Head of DevOps Engineering in Charleston

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Job DescriptionJob DescriptionAbout the Client

Our client is a fast-scaling, technology-driven company operating at the intersection of digital infrastructure and modern supply chain solutions. With a strong emphasis on innovation, automation, and cross-functional collaboration, the organization is deeply invested in cloud- technologies and platform scalability. They're on a mission to enable seamless product delivery through highly reliable, performant, and secure infrastructure systems.

About the Role

Our client is seeking a hands-on Head of DevOps Engineering to lead the charge in redefining their infrastructure, platform operations, and incident response strategy. This is a deeply technical leadership role suited for a Principal-level DevOps or SRE architect who thrives on building scalable systems, driving automation, and fostering a high-ownership engineering culture. You’ll be responsible for setting vision and execution across infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes environments, and observability—while mentoring a growing team.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Automate: Lead the design and implementation of repeatable, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) environments—governing over 90% of infra via Terraform and GitOps principles.

• CI/CD Ownership: Redesign and own artifact-based deployment pipelines enabling safe, self-service deployments using tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Docker.

• Platform Engineering: Build multi-account, multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure leveraging EKS/ECS, with intelligent autoscaling (Karpenter, HPA) and containerized workloads.

• Cost Optimization: Lead cloud cost control initiatives, including SPOT instance utilization, rightsizing, tagging strategies, and architectural remediation—driving measurable efficiency gains (25%+ reduction).

• Observability & Reliability: Roll out comprehensive observability tooling—centralized logging, alerting, tracing—and establish actionable IR runbooks and downtime mitigation strategies.

• Team Leadership & Culture: Mentor DevOps/SRE engineers, establishing a culture of speed, operational excellence, and continuous feedback.

• Cross-functional Enablement: Collaborate with engineering and product teams to foster GitOps workflows and enable safe, low-trust deployments that reduce operational friction.

• Process Standardization: Develop strategic roadmaps, author runbooks, and create reusable deployment patterns and documentation to scale DevOps practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure roles—preferably in high-scale, cloud- environments.

• Technical Leadership: Proven experience architecting robust CI/CD systems and infrastructure platforms, with an ops-focused mindset.

• IaC Mastery: Deep knowledge of Terraform (modular design), GitOps workflows, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.

• Kubernetes Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS/ECS), Helm, and autoscaling solutions such as Karpenter and HPA.

• Cloud Cost Management: Demonstrated success in optimizing cloud usage and spend at scale (e.g., AWS tagging, SPOT strategies, rightsizing).

• Observability Focused: Strong understanding of observability stacks, with experience building SLOs, SLIs, monitoring dashboards, and incident workflows.

• Mentorship & Influence: Strong ability to lead and mentor senior engineers while driving organizational best practices across multiple teams.

• Communication Skills: Effective communicator able to distill complex technical systems to cross-functional stakeholders.

Benefits & Why Join

• Competitive compensation ($215,000–$230,000 total annual package, including bonus and/or equity)

• High-impact leadership role with strategic influence across engineering and operations

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

• Generous PTO and company-observed holidays

• 401(k) retirement plan with potential employer matching

• FSAs and pre-tax commuter benefits

• Access to wellness and mental health support programs

• Opportunity to shape and lead a modern DevOps organization from the ground up

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