Lead DevOps Engineer

Join Updater’s Platform Engineering team as a Lead DevOps Engineer who combines technical excellence and exceptional collaboration skills to deliver impact. You will drive vital initiatives including deployment velocity, observability, system reliability, and developer experience. You'll build the infrastructure and tooling that lets engineers ship faster and sleep better—think GitOps workflows, Kubernetes configuration and optimization, comprehensive Datadog observability coverage, and the kind of automation that makes deployments uneventful. This is platform engineering done right: pragmatic, impactful, and centered on enabling the broader engineering organization. Key Responsibilities Embody a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership backed by clear documentation, runbooks, and other shift left contributions Build strong, collaborative relationships evidenced by proactive engagement from product teams Continually improve system reliability and observabi