Lead DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated provisioning pipelines (PXE, ZTP) to deploy bare-metal servers at scale across global data centers.
• Research and recommend innovative, automated approaches for system administration tasks.
• Perform regular security monitoring, OS patching, and hardware/software failure recovery.
• Conduct ongoing performance tuning, resource optimization, and maintenance of data center equipment.
• Act as a technical lead and mentor for the infrastructure team to drive operational excellence.
• Partner closely with the CTO and other technical teams to improve reliability, automation, and incident response.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of DevOps or system administration experience.
• 2+ years of experience in team leadership or people management.
• Proficiency in Shell, Python, Java, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef for bare-metal automation.
• Strong understanding of L4/L7 load balancing (HAProxy/Nginx) and network performance tuning.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Jenkins or Airflow.
• Experience with observability platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, or InfluxDB.
• Hands-on Unix/Linux experience and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
• Availability for rotational shifts as part of the incident response team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Systems Administration or System Engineer certification in Unix.

Benefits

• Fully remote work setup with a flexible work-from-home arrangement.
• $500 home-office setup budget.
• $1,000 annual learning and development budget.
• Direct access to top management and the Co-founder/CTO.
• Opportunity to work within a high-scale, multinational team.

About the Company

Kayzen is a mobile demand-side platform (DSP) dedicated to democratizing programmatic advertising. We power the world’s best mobile marketing teams with bespoke solutions, handling over 160 billion daily ad requests and managing petabytes of data across a global infrastructure.