Are you a DevOps leader ready to set technical direction across complex, multi-platform environments?
Join Camplight and lead the evolution of our DevOps capabilities — shaping standards, guiding teams, and ensuring our platforms remain reliable, scalable, and fast across a diverse technology landscape.
What you’ll be working on?
At Camplight, we support multiple partner platforms and internal initiatives across different FIT leads, including R&D and long-running production systems.
As Director, DevOps, you’ll operate at a platform-wide level, helping define how infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational excellence are delivered across teams and technologies.
You’ll work on:
- Cloud and on-premise infrastructure supporting multiple products
- Automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code foundations
- Platform reliability, scalability, and operational maturity
- Cross-team DevOps standards and best practices
Your Role
Your role will focus on technical leadership and direction.
- Provide technical leadership across DevOps and platform engineering
- Define and evolve standards for CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and operational practices
- Support multiple FIT leads and technology stacks (including R&D environments)
- Lead incident response at a strategic level and guide post-incident improvements
- Act as a trusted advisor to engineers, managers, and partners
- Help scale DevOps practices as platforms and teams grow
Directors may focus on specific platform areas (e.g. cloud infrastructure, developer experience, reliability), while contributing to the overall DevOps strategy.
About Camplight
We build self-organizing technical teams, offer software development services, and work with businesses and entrepreneurs to create new products. With over 300 successful software projects, some ongoing for over 8 years, we strive for long-term success for our partners. By following the principles of self-management and organizing as a cooperative, we achieve 95% satisfaction among them. We seek the best talent to join us and value transparency, collaboration, trust, responsibility, and innovation. When joining Camplight, you can become a co-owner of the cooperative, allowing you to steer the business and share in the rewards of our collective success.
What are we looking for?
- Ownership mindset: You take responsibility for platforms in production and care deeply about long-term reliability and quality.
- Technical leadership: You can set direction, define standards, and influence teams without relying on hierarchy.
- Broad DevOps expertise: Comfortable supporting multiple technologies, stacks, and environments.
- Strong communication: Able to explain trade-offs and decisions clearly to engineers, managers, and partners.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines at scale
- Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
- Strong understanding of Linux-based systems, networking, and observability
- Experience leading or coordinating incident response
Nice to have:
- Experience supporting R&D or experimental environments
- Background in SRE practices
- Experience defining platform standards across multiple teams
- Prior experience in a director, principal, or staff-level role
What do we offer?
We focus on health, wealth, and empowering relationships:
- Fully remote work with flexible work hours
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to become a co-owner of the cooperative
- Individual career development plan
- Friendly team and company culture
- Prioritization of mental and physical health in the workplace
- Empowering relationships in an environment that blends service and product craftsmanship
What does the interview process look like?
- Initial Interview: A friendly 45-minute cultural and technical interview with two Camplight team members focusing on leadership, experience, and technical depth.
- You can choose between two Technical Deep Dive options:
- Homework Assignment: A short senior-level exercise (~2 hours) followed by a 1-hour discussion.
- Architecture / Incident Review Session: A 2-hour deep dive into real-world DevOps and platform scenarios.
Regardless of the outcome, we will provide you with constructive feedback to help you grow.
