Job Description

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

  • Lead and mentor the DevOps Tools Support team.

  • Manage workload distribution, priorities, and escalations.

  • Cultivate a culture of ownership, agility, and continuous improvement.

DevOps Tools Management

  • Own, optimize, and maintain the toolchain: Jenkins, Git (GitLab/GitHub/Bitbucket), Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Artifactory, etc.

  • Ensure reliability, performance, and compliance of the entire DevOps stack.

  • Collaborate with security and compliance to align on governance.

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Onboard new teams into the DevOps ecosystem.

  • Promote CI/CD and DevOps standards across engineering teams.

  • Act as a liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Strategy & Continuous Improvement

  • Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and tool integration.

  • Contribute to the strategic roadmap of the DevOps platform.

  • Evangelize modern DevOps practices: Infrastructure as Code, containerization, observability, etc.

Must-Have Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles.

  • Strong hands-on experience with:

    • Jenkins, Git (Bitbucket/GitLab/GitHub)

    • CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)

    • Docker, Kubernetes

    • AWS

    • Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

  • Experience leading a DevOps support team or platform team.

  • Familiarity with governance, security, and compliance in enterprise environments.

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

  • Ability to work autonomously and influence organizational change.

Nice-to-Have

  • Experience in enterprise IT environments with complex toolchains.

  • Background in change management, ITSM, or regulatory compliance.

  • 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.

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