Lead DevOps Engineer
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About Us
Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have relied on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in the fast-moving credit markets.
The Role
As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of our DevOps processes and infrastructure. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers, collaborating closely with Application developers, Data engineers, SRE, Security, and IT professionals to automate and streamline our operations and processes. Your critical role will ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems and applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
- Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Experience with AWS is a plus.
- Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
- Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
- Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
- Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in a DevOps role, with 2 years in a leadership position.
- Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
- Expert-level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve, and document RCA of incidents.
- Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS, including managing microservices architectures.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
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Octus
View Company ProfileOctus (operating at octus.com) is a sub-investment grade credit intelligence and workflow platform engineered for the global financial markets. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Octus evolved from a distressed debt and bankruptcy startup into an enterprise-level intelligence leader, now covering all of leveraged finance. The platform solves the critical challenge of navigating complex, high-risk credit environments by consolidating real-time data, analytics, and workflow tools into a single, actionable interface. Under the hood, Octus aggregates proprietary and third-party datasets—including filings, market movements, and distressed event tracking—while leveraging AI-driven insights (e.g., its CreditAI Vault) to surface nuanced trends and risks. This empowers buy-side firms, investment banks, law firms, and advisory teams to make faster, more informed decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 40,000 credit professionals worldwide, Octus bridges the gap between raw data and strategic execution, enabling stakeholders to mitigate risk and capitalize on opportunities in opaque credit markets.
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