The Lead Engineer will own the architecture for platforms, enhance scalability, oversee DevOps practices, ensure system performance, and lead a technical team in an AI-forward environment.
What we’re looking forAt Ideaware we’re looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to define and own the architecture that powers our entire system, from backend services to game delivery and live operations. This person will ensure the platform is scalable, reliable, and production-ready, while establishing strong DevOps practices and tooling that enable efficient, high-quality delivery. You’ll join a team that designs and builds digital experiences with measurable impact, combining strategy, engineering, and human-centred design with deep technical expertise.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Responsibilities
- Define and own infrastructure and platform architecture across environments
- Lead technical decisions around scalability, reliability, and system performance
- Define and promote AI-assisted and agentic development practices (e.g. Claude Code, sub-agents, plugins) to improve team velocity and quality
- Design and support an API-first, modular architecture
- Establish DevOps practices (CI/CD, deployment, release processes)
- Own cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar)
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting standards
- Support structured data/config pipelines
- Act as the most senior technical authority across infrastructure and platform concerns
Qualifications
- +5 years proven experience defining and owning infrastructure/platform architecture for scalable products
- Experience working in AI-forward, agentic development workflows (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) and leveraging them to accelerate development
- Strong experience with AWS and modern cloud-based systems
- Experience establishing DevOps practices CI/CD, monitoring, release pipelines
- Comfortable operating as the most senior technical decision-maker in a team
- English proficiency at B2 level or higher (able to communicate effectively in written and spoken form in professional settings)
What's in It for You
- Fully remote — work from anywhere
- Benefits — PTO and other perks depending on the client
- Work with US-based companies building exciting, impactful products
- Join collaborative, high-performance teams that value your input and expertise
If you’re a Lead Engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges, delivering elegant solutions, and working with talented teams around the world, we’d love to hear from you.
Top Skills
Api-First Architecture
AWS
Ci/Cd
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