Lead Engineer, DevOps & SRE

Requirements

• 5+ years of production AWS infrastructure experience with deep Terraform expertise.
• Hands-on experience building the SRE function from scratch and had complete ownership.
• Experience with a multi-site company where PaaS or microservices are required.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership in one or more previous roles.
• PagerDuty experience and standing up an on-call rotation.
• EXPERIENCE: 5+ years hands-on with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipeline ownership, and SRE tooling (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, PagerDuty or equivalent) in a production environment.
• YOUR ROLE
• Own and evolve Launch Potato's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and compliance posture. Build the SRE function from the ground up so product teams can ship faster without compromising reliability, security, or cost control.
• OUTCOMES
• Stand up the SRE practice from scratch: on-call rotation, PagerDuty configuration, SLA/SLO definitions for core infrastructure services, runbook library, and observability dashboards that tie site performance to business metrics.
• Complete the AWS multi-account migration: move production workloads to an isolated account with zero unplanned downtime.
• Deliver SOC 2 Type I audit-ready infrastructure evidence package: own the technical controls implementation end-to-end.
• Version and publish the Terraform module library: (30+ modules) to a private registry to eliminate ad hoc git consumption by product teams.
• Implement automated deployment rollback for ECS and Lambda: gate production on integration test passage.
• Stand up monthly cost reporting to leadership: budget anomaly detection, savings plan recommendations, spend by service/team/environment.
• COMPETENCIES
• Ownership orientation: You don't wait to be assigned a problem. If something is broken, undocumented, or a risk, you flag it and fix it. If the runbooks don't exist yet, you write them.
• Documentation discipline: You write things down. Runbooks, decision rationale, architecture patterns, incident post-mortems. The next person should be able to understand your work without asking you.
• Cost consciousness: You think about the business impact of infrastructure decisions. You can explain a spending anomaly to a CFO in plain language. You know what things cost before you build them.
• Calm under pressure: Production incidents happen. You triage clearly, communicate proactively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and run a tight post-mortem without blame. You've been woken up at 3am. You can handle it.
• Cross-functional communication: You can work with product engineers, legal/compliance, and executive leadership in the same week without switching communication modes awkwardly. You speak both engineer and business.
• Proactive reliability: A good SRE reacts to outages. A great SRE catches degradation before it becomes an outage. You build alerting against the patterns, not just the failures.
• TOTAL COMPENSATION
• Want to accelerate your career? Apply now!
• Since day one, we've been committed to having a diverse, inclusive team and culture. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Benefits

Additional Information

WHO ARE WE? Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company that reaches over 30M+ monthly visitors through brands such as FinanceBuzz , All About Cookies , and OnlyInYourState . As The Discovery and Conversion Company, our mission is to connect consumers with the world's leading brands through data-driven content and technology. Headquartered in South Florida with a remote-first team spanning over 15 countries, we've built a high-growth, high-performance culture where speed, ownership, and measurable impact drive success. WHY JOIN US? At Launch Potato, you'll accelerate your career by owning outcomes, moving fast, and driving impact with a global team of high-performers. BASE SALARY: $160,000 to $190,000 per year, paid semi-monthly

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