DevOps Lead - Remote Latam

📋 Job Overview

Lead reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud operations so Fanbase teams can release with confidence and creators can rely on the platform. The project needs clear ownership of its infrastructure, deployment workflows, and production readiness across web, mobile, and backend services.

🏢 About Fanbase

A fast-growing, creator-powered social and monetization platform empowering creators, artists, and brands to engage their audiences, monetize digital content, and build direct, high-value fan relationships. We operate at the intersection of consumer social, digital media, creator monetization, and agentic AI.

🎯 The Role

As a hands-on technical lead, you’ll strengthen AWS operations and incident response while partnering with the Principal Platform Engineer on architecture and shared engineering standards. You’ll also guide operational priorities and coach engineers, helping the team improve reliability without slowing delivery.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own AWS operations, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, environment configuration, and tested rollback procedures.
• Lead on-call planning, incident coordination, observability, and capacity planning; ensure incident reviews lead to meaningful follow-up.
• Strengthen IAM, secrets management, patching, backups, recovery drills, and cloud cost controls in partnership with Security and Engineering.
• Set operational priorities, coach engineers, and maintain clear, useful runbooks.
• Coordinate release readiness with QA and product teams.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience, including technical leadership and ownership of production incidents.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Linux, networking, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and scripting.
• Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu and GitHub Actions is preferred.
• Experience setting service objectives and improving monitoring, disaster recovery, security controls, and cloud cost management. AWS certification is preferred.
• Software development and automation experience, including the ability to build and debug code independently with or without AI coding tools.
• Effective use of AI assistants and agents, with the judgment to review and test generated changes, protect sensitive data, and remain accountable for production operations.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu and GitHub Actions.
• AWS certification.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive Salary: Earn a USD salary that matches your skills and experience.
Paid Time Off: Generous PTO to support your work-life balance and recharge.
Health Insurance Subsidy: Financial assistance to support your healthcare coverage.
Annual Salary Reviews: Structured annual evaluations to recognize and reward performance.
Paid Training & Certifications: Continuous support for professional growth and upskilling.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Not specified.