Location: LATAM (Remote)
Schedule: Full-time, alignment with UTC-5 preferred
Engagement: Long-term contractor
Seniority: Senior
Language: Advanced English required
🌍 About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead and evolve the internal DevOps tooling ecosystem of a major enterprise client. This is not just a technical role—you will lead a team of tool support engineers, manage the CI/CD stack, ensure governance and compliance, and act as a DevOps evangelist across a large-scale, distributed organization.
You’ll be responsible for driving adoption of best practices, ensuring operational excellence, and contributing to the strategic roadmap of DevOps capabilities.
🧠 Key Responsibilities
👥 Team Leadership & Enablement
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Lead and mentor the DevOps Tools Support team.
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Manage workload distribution, priorities, and escalations.
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Cultivate a culture of ownership, agility, and continuous improvement.
🔧 DevOps Tools Management
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Own, optimize, and maintain the toolchain: Jenkins, Git (GitLab/GitHub/Bitbucket), Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Artifactory, etc.
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Ensure reliability, performance, and compliance of the entire DevOps stack.
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Collaborate with security and compliance to align on governance.
🤝 Stakeholder Engagement
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Onboard new teams into the DevOps ecosystem.
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Promote CI/CD and DevOps standards across engineering teams.
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Act as a liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
🚀 Strategy & Continuous Improvement
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Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and tool integration.
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Contribute to the strategic roadmap of the DevOps platform.
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Evangelize modern DevOps practices: Infrastructure as Code, containerization, observability, etc.
✅ Must-Have Skills
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5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles.
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Strong hands-on experience with:
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Jenkins, Git (Bitbucket/GitLab/GitHub)
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CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
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Docker, Kubernetes
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AWS
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Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
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Experience leading a DevOps support team or platform team.
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Familiarity with governance, security, and compliance in enterprise environments.
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Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
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Ability to work autonomously and influence organizational change.
✨ Nice-to-Have
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Experience in enterprise IT environments with complex toolchains.
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Background in change management, ITSM, or regulatory compliance.
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Familiarity with GitHub Advanced Security or similar tooling.
🌟 Why Join Tekton Labs?
- 🚀 Impact real infrastructure: You’ll directly shape and optimize mission-critical engineering systems.
- 🌐 Remote-first culture: We work async, collaboratively, and with purpose.
- 🧠 Own your growth: From leading teams to designing strategic roadmaps.
- 🤝 Human-first leadership: We empower ownership, autonomy, and impact.
📩 Ready to Apply?
If you’re a technical leader who thrives in complex environments and wants to champion DevOps excellence at scale, we want to hear from you.
Submit your CV and a brief message about your platform leadership experience.