Job Description

Title: Devops Technology Operations Readiness Lead
Location: Remote/ On-site options available
Duration: 4 Months
Introduction
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless go-lives and stable operations for mission-critical systems. This role bridges engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to drive production readiness, operational excellence, and long-term system reliability. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise across SRE, DevOps, or technical operations, coupled with proven experience in preparing high-stakes systems for production success.
Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or technical operations roles supporting production systems
• Proven experience leading operational readiness and go-live efforts for critical, real-time platforms
• Strong understanding of production observability, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure management practices
• Demonstrated success driving cross-functional coordination across technology, product, and operations teams
• Hands-on familiarity with service-level objectives (SLOs), incident management frameworks, and chaos engineering methodologies
• Experience operating in hybrid cloud or cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in regulated or high-availability industries (financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, or observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.)
• Certification in AWS, GCP, or DevOps/SRE disciplines

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Lead go-live readiness and cutover planning for large-scale, real-time systems to ensure smooth production transitions
• Coordinate across engineering, product, and operations teams to define, validate, and execute operational readiness criteria
• Oversee end-to-end operations readiness programs, including incident management preparedness, service monitoring setup, and support documentation
• Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams to ensure alignment of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling with operational standards
• Validate that monitoring, alerting, and SLOs are in place before production releases
• Facilitate operational risk assessments, simulate failure scenarios (chaos testing), and ensure rollback/recovery procedures are tested and documented
• Partner with platform engineering and cloud infrastructure teams to maintain hybrid or cloud-native environments with high availability and resilience
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, post-mortem learning, and proactive reliability engineering

Company Benefits & Culture

• Inclusive and diverse work environment
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.

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