Lead DevOps Engineer

What's the role?

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will own and evolve the DevOps and cloud infrastructure practices that support HERE’s web platforms. The role focuses on ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and security, while leading CI/CD strategy, deployment standards, and operational excellence. You will provide technical leadership, guide platform modernization, and support teams in delivering high-quality web solutions safely and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead and evolve DevOps and cloud infrastructure practices supporting HERE’s web platforms
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment standards, and release processes
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, security, and performance across environments
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts
• Develop and maintain enterprise-grade IAM solutions, focusing on user, group, and membership management.
• Work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes, etc.) to deliver scalable, high-availability applications.
• Build and maintain high-quality enterprise software using TypeScript, REST APIs, and JSON.
• Guide platform modernization initiatives and adoption of new tooling or technologies
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, and security teams to align on best practices

Who are you?
You are an experienced DevOps or platform engineer who understands cloud infrastructure, automation, and production operations. You are proactive, collaborative, and comfortable balancing hands‑on work with mentoring others.   You bring:

• Strong experience in DevOps or cloud engineering with ownership of production systems.
• Proven experience managing AWS infrastructure (VPC, IAM, ECS/Lambda, RDS).
• Hands‑on experience with Vercel deployments and environment configuration.
• Expertise in CI/CD (especially GitLab CI/CD) across build, deploy, rollback workflows.
• Practical experience in monitoring, alerting, incident response, and RCA.
• Strong understanding of networking (DNS, SSL/TLS, CDN configuration).
• Ability to implement and maintain security best practices.
• Comfort owning systems end‑to‑end across deployment and operations.
• (Nice to have) Exposure to serverless/edge, Docker, high‑traffic web platforms, developer‑experience tooling, compliance/security tooling, or mentoring experience.

 What Do We Offer?

• A culture that values collaboration, openness, and continuous learning.
• Opportunities to work with modern cloud, DevOps, and web technologies.
• A diverse, inclusive environment where your ideas drive real impact.
• Career growth through skill development, mentorship, and learning programs.

HERE Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Who are we?

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.

We are the Web Infrastructure & Web Experience team at HERE, shaping how millions of users experience HERE’s products and brand online. We build modern, scalable, and performance-driven web platforms that power HERE’s global digital presence. Our team works with cutting-edge technologies, embraces strong engineering principles, and values collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement.