Lead DevOps Engineer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

Position summary:

We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. Thistleland is hiring for the Lead DevOps Engineer role to own our build pipelines, cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling. This role is fully remote within Nepal. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

In this role you will:

• Implement blue-green and canary deployments.
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection.
• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards.
• Set up monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch.
• Automate server configuration with Ansible.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Handle secrets with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role.
• Built at least one CI/CD pipeline from scratch.
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills.
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting in Bash and Python.
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Calm under pressure during outages.

Preferred:

• Background in software development.
• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.

Compensation and benefits:

• Medical insurance.
• Paid leave.
• Life insurance.
• Dashain bonus.
• Learning budget.
• Company laptop.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thistleland Limited.