DevOps Tech Lead Manager

🕒 September 2

🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Aplazo

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51 - 200 employees

💳 Fintech

🛍️ eCommerce

🤝 B2B

Fintech • eCommerce • B2B

Aplazo is a Mexico-based Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform that offers installment payment solutions and marketing tools to physical and online merchants, enabling consumers to purchase products through payments in installments. The company partners with brick-and-mortar and e-commerce merchants to provide point-of-sale financing and merchant-facing marketing tools, with a stated mission to unlock financial access, freedom, and opportunity for every Mexican.

📋 Description

• Lead and grow a squad of 4–8 DevOps engineers • Own squad delivery commitments, code and infrastructure quality, and on-call rotation • Work hands-on with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability • Run 1:1s, write performance reviews, and coach career growth • Hire and onboard new engineers • Own squad-level incidents and post-mortems, escalating proactively • Tie squad work to business OKRs/KPIs and represent the squad in planning and cross-team syncs • Build psychological safety and ownership • Remove process, tooling, and technical-debt blockers • Optimize cloud costs • Balance delivery speed against regulatory constraints such as CNBV and Condusef • Communicate risks, trade-offs, priorities, and feedback to reports, peers, stakeholders, and leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering with production ownership • Prior formal or informal team leadership experience, including hiring, mentoring, or incident response • Track record of owning delivery for a team • Comfortable working 40–60% hands-on alongside people management • Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation • Deep knowledge of CI/CD systems and modern delivery practices, including trunk-based development, feature flags, and incremental rollouts • Hands-on AWS experience with Fargate, ECS, EC2, RDS/Postgres, ElastiCache, Lambda, SQS, and Kinesis • Proficiency with observability tools; Datadog preferred • Scripting/automation with Python, Bash, or Node.js/TypeScript • Understanding of cloud security, secret management, and compliance requirements • Experience running 1:1s, giving structured feedback, and writing performance reviews • Ability to hire and onboard engineers and coach career growth across E1–E3 • Ability to make people decisions with fairness and empathy • Strong communication in Spanish, with working English for vendor/partner interactions • Ability to manage ambiguity and changing priorities • Agile mindset and attention to workflow hygiene • Growth mindset • Familiarity with GCP services, MongoDB Atlas or other managed data stores, regulated fintech environments, on-call and incident response processes, and DORA metrics are nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Lead a squad building infrastructure that powers financial inclusion across Latin America • Stay hands-on as an engineer while growing people-leadership skills • Work in a high-growth fintech • Team with deep roots in product, technology, and culture-focused companies