Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer

Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company that reaches over 30M+ monthly visitors. They are seeking a Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer to own and evolve their cloud infrastructure and CI/CD platform while building the SRE function from the ground up to enhance reliability and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

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
• 5+ years hands-on with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipeline ownership, and SRE tooling (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, PagerDuty or equivalent) in a production environment