DevOps Tech Lead

The opportunity

As our DevOps Tech Lead, you'll spearhead innovation across multiple DevOps teams within our R&D organization. This isn't just another tech role – you'll be the driving force behind our infrastructure evolution, leading teams that power modern software development through Kubernetes orchestration, cloud engineering excellence, and cutting-edge automation.
You'll collaborate with brilliant minds who are passionate about building scalable, resilient infrastructure that empowers developers to deliver exceptional products. Our DevOps & Infrastructure group is the backbone of our technology organization, implementing solutions that directly impact business outcomes.

Your expertise will transform how we build and deploy software by:

• Drive significant improvements in developer productivity and infrastructure reliability metrics
• Create a culture of innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement
• Establish standardized patterns that scale across the organization
• Unifying our approach to infrastructure as code, cloud architecture, and Kubernetes management
• Creating a seamless developer experience through our Developer Portal and productivity tools
• Establishing architectural patterns that enable data workloads to scale efficiently
• Mentoring team members to reach their full potential and grow into technical leaders

What's In It For You

• Technical Leadership: Shape the future of our infrastructure and influence architectural decisions across the organization
• Technology Breadth: Work across the full DevOps spectrum – from IaC and Kubernetes to DataOps and developer productivity tools
• Growth Trajectory: Clear path for career advancement as you demonstrate success
• Innovation Playground: Experiment with emerging technologies and implement solutions at scale
• Strategic Impact: Direct line of sight between your work and business outcomes

What you'll be doing

• Design Cloud-Native Solutions - Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure across multiple environments using Kubernetes, IaC and other tools and frameworks to power our growing technology ecosystem
• Lead Technical Strategy - Define the technical vision and roadmap for our DevOps capabilities, aligning multiple teams around common patterns, tools, and practices that drive efficiency and reliability
• Accelerate Developer Experience - Spearhead improvements to our Developer Portal, CI/CD pipelines, and productivity tools that empower engineering teams to ship faster with higher quality
• Optimize Data Infrastructure - Engineer robust platforms that support our data-intensive workloads, ensuring performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness for critical business intelligence systems
• Drive DevOps Transformation - Mentor team members, collaborate with engineering leaders, and champion modern DevOps practices to transform how we build, deploy, and operate software at scale

What we're looking for

• Cloud Platform Expertise - Deep hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP services, Kubernetes cluster management, and implementing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure architectures
• Infrastructure as Code Mastery - Proven ability to design and implement infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi at enterprise scale
• CI/CD Pipelines and GitOps Expertise - Demonstrated success building and optimizing continuous integration and delivery pipelines using modern tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.) for diverse application types
• Developer Experience Focus - Track record of creating and improving developer portals, internal platforms, and self-service tools that measurably enhance engineering productivity
• Data Infrastructure Knowledge - Experience designing and implementing infrastructure for data-intensive workloads, including data processing pipelines,Kafka, storage solutions, and observability systems

You might also have

• Experience with Spark applications
• Experience with Machine Learning platforms (Ray, Seldon-Core)
• Experience with Backstage (Developers Portal

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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