Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

Lead DevOps Engineer

It’s an exciting time to be in marketing. Emerging technologies and evolving consumer expectations are transforming how brands connect with audiences. Today’s consumers are more informed, empowered, and privacy-conscious than ever.

Resonate is at the forefront of this shift, delivering AI-powered marketing data and identity solutions that help organizations uncover deeper insights and drive smarter strategies. By making data more powerful, accessible, and actionable, we enable our clients to stay ahead in a dynamic landscape.

Our mission is simple: empower companies to unlock rich insights and optimize engagement. Backed by passionate leaders, innovative engineers, and a driven sales team, Resonate is redefining what marketing intelligence can achieve.

We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and help drive the next phase of our technical evolution. This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact—scaling our infrastructure, refining our processes, and playing a key role in shaping our engineering practices.

In this role, you’ll lead the planning, design, and operation of platforms that are critical to our success. You’ll collaborate with a talented engineering team to build a resilient, high-performance environment, while also leading initiatives to improve the speed, reliability, and quality of our deployment pipelines.

As a DevOps Lead, you’ll also help foster a culture of growth and collaboration—mentoring junior team members, championing best practices, and ensuring that DevOps principles are embedded across the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to and lead the architecture and infrastructure strategies, focusing on availability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Improve, implement, and maintain our CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments.
• Build and enforce SDLC best practices across development and operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues impacting our SDLC, ensuring efficient workflows.
• Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices.
• Build scripts and monitoring tools to optimize and reduce AWS costs.
• Work closely with engineering teams to promote best practices and maximize the effective use of our tool portfolio.
• Foster a DevOps culture across Resonate by reducing time to deliver code to production.
• Mentor and guide junior DevOps team members, sharing knowledge and best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations, responding to infrastructure issues as needed.

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

• 6-8 years of professional experience in DevOps or a related software/system engineering role.
• 1+ years of management experience and/or experience mentoring junior team members.
• 2+ years of Python coding/scripting experience.
• 1-2 years of experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS; DevOps or Solutions Architect Professional certification is a plus.
• Experience with Linux system administration and management.
• Strong background in administering and managing monitoring tools such as Splunk, TIG (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana), Nagios, or AWS X-Ray.
• Proficiency with container management using Docker and AWS ECS/Fargate.
• Experience with build tools such as Maven, Gradle, and SBT.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub/GitLab, TeamCity/Jenkins, AWS CodeDeploy/CodePipeline, GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with streaming data services like Kafka.
• Proficiency in configuration management tools (Ansible preferred).
• Experience collaborating with software engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing Java Spring Boot microservices.
• Familiarity with AWS data engineering and MLOps tools such as EMR and SageMaker.
• Experience with Step Functions and AWS Lambda development.
• Background in ETL process development.
• Experience coordinating with security vendors for regular security scans and penetration testing.

The Ideal Candidate Is:

• A problem solver with a passion for tackling technical challenges.
• Enthusiastic about new technologies and continuously seeks opportunities for learning.
• Committed to quality and strives for excellence.
• Proactive and willing to take initiative to become a subject matter expert in various DevOps technologies.
• Flexible and able to manage multiple projects, meeting deadlines and handling priorities effectively.
• Supportive and eager to mentor junior team members, sharing knowledge and encouraging their growth.

Benefits

Besides the opportunity to work alongside smart, fun, and hard-working colleagues at Resonate, you'll also enjoy uncapped growth potential, the chance to have a meaningful impact on the company, and the opportunity to work on cutting-edge, AI-powered marketing data and identity solutions that are forever changing the industry. From a competitive 401(k) match to an Open PTO policy that encourages real time off, we’re committed to creating an environment where our team members can thrive both inside and outside of work. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. A full list of benefits is shared with candidates following their initial conversation with our HR team, so you’ll have a clear understanding of the support and resources available to you as part of the Resonate team.

Location

At Resonate, we take a remote-first approach to work, offering a flexible environment that empowers our team to collaborate seamlessly across different locations. While we embrace remote work, we also encourage thoughtful and intentional in-person collaboration to foster connection and teamwork when needed. Whether you're working from home or joining us in one of our state-of-the-art offices, you'll have the tools and resources you need to succeed.

Resonate is headquartered in Reston, VA, with offices in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Our EEO Statement:

Resonate is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outline by federal, state, or local laws.

Find out more about our story at www.resonate.com.