Lead DevOps Engineer (Infrastructure Scale & Enablement) (HYBRID)
C-4 Analytics · Wakefield, MA
$160,000–$190,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Wakefield, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role focused on consolidating and scaling an existing AWS and GCP environment using Terraform, then building self-service tooling so both engineering and non-engineering teams can deploy applications safely. Day-to-day work spans IaC standardization, IAM and access control architecture, CI/CD integration, and managing services including ECS, Snowflake, and MongoDB. Suits an experienced DevOps engineer with a strong platform-engineering and security mindset.
Senior level · National · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title uses 'Lead' rather than 'Senior', but the scope — owning end-to-end infrastructure lifecycle, primary architect for a multi-cloud environment — is consistent with a Senior individual-contributor band rather than Staff or Principal; there is no indication of org-wide cross-team technical authority.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily about building and shipping infrastructure-as-code, internal developer platforms, and CI/CD tooling (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but it also carries meaningful operational/administration responsibilities (15-1244). The code-shipping and platform-building emphasis tips the classification to 15-1252.
MongoDB and Snowflake appear in the 'Our Tech Stack' table without explicit gating language, but they are also referenced in the narrative responsibilities ('data warehouses (Snowflake)', 'speak the language of a data scientist (Snowflake)'), which elevates them above pure stack color. They are marked required accordingly.
AWS Lambda appears only in a parenthetical list of managed services ('ECS, Lambdas') with no gating language; treated as preferred context rather than a hard gate.
No minimum years of experience are stated anywhere in the posting.
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