Lead DevOps Engineer

About the role

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, the Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for the reliability, security, and operational excellence of Render's cloud platform. This hands‑on technical leadership position oversees the DevOps and SRE function while staying close to the technology, owning production operations, cloud infrastructure, platform reliability, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the operational health, reliability and resilience of the production platform.
• Drive major incident response, triage, root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Own investigation, triage and resolution of customer‑impacting platform issues.
• Operate and maintain Render's AWS serverless environment, ensuring secure and scalable cloud operations.
• Build and evolve the AWS platform using Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud engineering practices.
• Implement automation, reliability engineering practices, SLIs, SLOs and service‑improvement initiatives.
• Define and execute the observability strategy with Datadog.
• Maintain and improve Buildkite CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable software delivery.
• Support reliability of event streaming and data platforms such as Confluent Cloud and Databricks.
• Partner with Product Engineering to improve scalability, resilience and developer experience.
• Maintain operational controls for ISO 27001 and security compliance.
• Lead, mentor and grow a high‑performing DevOps/SRE team.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Platform Engineering.
• Proven experience leading DevOps/SRE teams and providing technical direction.
• Strong hands‑on experience operating production workloads on AWS.

Required skills

• AWS (including serverless services)
• Infrastructure as Code
• Datadog
• Buildkite
• CI/CD pipelines
• Confluent Cloud
• Databricks
• ISO 27001 security controls