Team Lead, DevOps

About Apptegy

Apptegy partners with school districts to simplify communication, elevate their brand, and empower every role in their organization. We put our clients front and center in everything we do because it's our clients who are most passionate about education. We build our products and features to make everyone in a school community better communicators. Ask any of our clients about us, and they will tell you that Apptegy’s people are thoughtful and high-performing. Our fast response time and quality support mean school leaders, teachers, and staff always have a partner ready to help provide a solution. Joining Apptegy is your opportunity to be on a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own.

We value thoughtfulness and high performance in everyone. That’s how we’ve grown quickly and won (and kept) thousands of school districts across the U.S. Our team is fast-growing and you’ll have the tools, the mentors, and the resources you need to be successful. We ask you to be someone who is internally motivated to do your best work and that you care about others. Apptegy’s Team Lead, DevOps position is your opportunity to join a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own. 

Why You’ll Love This Job

We are seeking a Team Lead, DevOps with expertise in AWS to lead a high-performing team of engineers, drive infrastructure excellence, and enhance our CI/CD and cloud operations. This role requires a strong technical foundation in AWS cloud environments, automation, and DevOps best practices, along with leadership skills to foster an inclusive, innovative, and high-performance team culture. Experience with Google Cloud is a plus but not required.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of talented engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment focused on innovation, autonomy, and respect. 
• Own and report on team progress, ensuring initiatives stay on track and deliver impact. 
• Mentor and guide team members through code reviews, technical design discussions, knowledge-sharing sessions, and formal feedback cycles. 
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Product Management, and Design teams to define and execute a well-structured roadmap. 
• Improve engineering best practices by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity, automation, and security enhancements.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud environments, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency. 
• Set and uphold high standards for security, observability, clean code, and operational excellence. 
• Manage hiring efforts, growing and scaling a strong DevOps team while contributing to hiring across engineering. 
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline development and automation to improve deployment speed and reliability. 
• Implement IaC (Infrastructure as Code) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. 
• Optimize system monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana. 
• Ensure best practices in networking, security, and IAM management within AWS and other SaaS tools. Facilitate resolution of production issues, ensuring high system availability and performance. Provide RCA when appropriate. 
• Stay up to date with AWS services and industry trends, driving continuous improvements. 

Who You Are

• 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying scalable infrastructure solutions, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, EKS, etc.).
• Thrives in a high-autonomy, fast-paced environment balancing tactical and strategic priorities.
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies/mindset and experience facilitating agile ceremonies.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with a customer focus.
• Passion for quality, security, and operational excellence.

Bonus Skills (Preferred but Not Required)

• AWS certifications (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent). 
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.). 
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS). 
• Google Cloud experience is a plus.

Apptegy will not consider remote candidates from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington for this opening.

Why You'll Love Working With Us

We take our responsibility as a company seriously and aim to make this the best job that you’ve had (and one that sets you up for future success). We want your day at work and your time at home to be a joyful experience that’s why we provide:

--Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage

--Retirement 401(k) with employer match

--Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

--Mental Health Reimbursement

--Unlimited paid time off including seasonal (December) company-wide time off

--Paid parental and medical leave

We value thoughtfulness and high performance in all candidates as we progress through the interview stages. If the challenge of building a rapidly growing company excites you as much as it does us, we hope you’ll consider joining us.

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Apptegy is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.