Lead Infrastructure Engineer

The Judge Group

The Judge Group

Other Engineering

Remote

Posted on May 18, 2026

Qualifications

  • Experience:
    5–8+ years of experience building, operating, and optimizing production infrastructure, internal platforms, or DevOps systems in cloud environments.

  • Leadership:
    Minimum 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role (Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, TLM, or equivalent), with a proven ability to lead projects, mentor engineers, and drive technical direction.

  • Cloud Expertise:
    Deep hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including strong knowledge of compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed services.

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
    Strong proficiency in infrastructure automation using Terraform or similar frameworks, including designing and maintaining reusable, scalable modules.

  • DevOps & CI/CD:
    Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release management, and modern DevOps practices at scale.

  • Containers & Orchestration:
    Practical experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or equivalent platforms.

  • Programming & Automation:
    Ability to develop scripts and production-grade automation using languages such as Python, Go, Rust, Bash, TypeScript, or similar.

  • Production Operations:
    Proven experience managing production environments, including observability, alerting, incident response, runbooks, and continuous post-incident improvements.

  • Cloud Security:
    Strong understanding of security best practices, including IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, encryption, and secure configuration.

  • Impact & Optimization:
    Demonstrated success in improving developer productivity, cloud cost efficiency, system reliability, deployment safety, and operational maturity.

  • Soft Skills:
    Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with strong prioritization and decision-making abilities in ambiguous environments, and the ability to align both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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