Position: Lead DevOps Engineer
Company: Intellias
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Cricut® mission is to help people lead creative lives. The company produces cutting machines for people crafting, designing, and DIY. The company's focus is on innovating with new machines, platforms, materials, and tools. The Cricut team is dynamic, diverse, and inclusive, join us as we place the power of handmade into the hands of ALL. 

**Responsibilities**

People Leadership (20%) 
Mentor, develop, and guide your SRE team
Excellent people manager who can be a hands-on player/coach.
Help establish a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation, and personal growth.  
Evangelize DevOps principle
Foster a fail fast, learn fast environment. 

Technical Leadership (40%) 
Define vision, strategy, and roadmaps for SRE team
Support the growth by ensuring a robust, scalable, cloud-first infrastructure
Drive and own the measuring of SLA/SLO/SLI/uptime and ensure the organization meets set goals
Collaborate with Engineering teams to understand deployment practices and processes and work towards iteratively improving the release pipeline to provide a highly resilient deployment strategy, ideally with zero downtime
Ensure best engineering practices through automation, infrastructure as code, robust system monitoring, alerting, auto-scaling, self-healing, etc
A clear understanding of infrastructure, networking, configuration management, and computing services/deployment architecture
Experience building resiliency into system architecture
Experience in building CI/CD Pipeline 
Collaborate and work closely with the Security teams to define and implement security compliance controls, auditing, and privacy initiatives.
Experience in micro-service management experience
Propose architecture (software and infrastructure) changes that increase application availability and performance (i.e., drive design enhancements)

SRE (40%)
Collaborate and troubleshoot across multiple layers of a technical stack, including Applications, Database, Systems, Networking, and Development
Identify sources of instability in large-scale distributed systems and drive operational excellence
Analyze complex systems from a reliability and resilience perspective
Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code on AWS

**Requirements**
Advanced level of English, good communication skills.
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
7+ years of experience as a software engineer and engineering manager with demonstrated technical & Organizational Leadership
Proven experience in Microsoft development stack and leveraging SQL Server, .NET/C#, and IIS for enterprise software technology
5+ years experience shipping distributed systems, services, and highly available infrastructure
Experience managing Site Reliability Engineering
Experience in defining and implementing highly resilient and reliable applications with a focus on automation, availability, and performance
Architect, build and operate AWS environments with well established best practices
AWS Professional Certifications are a plus: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Advance Networking, AWS Certified Database, AWS Certified Security, AWS Certified Solutions Architect;