Lead DevOps Engineer

Accountabilities:: CI/CD Pipeline Development and Management: Design, implement, maintain, and optimize continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for enterprise applications. Improve automation, deployment consistency, release speed, and software delivery reliability using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation. Develop reusable infrastructure components that improve scalability, consistency, and operational efficiency. DevOps Strategy and Leadership: Define and lead DevOps practices across development, quality assurance, and production environments. Establish technical standards, deployment strategies, and operational guidelines aligned with business and engineering objectives. Cloud Infrastructure Management: Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure and related services, ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and performance across cloud-based environments. Containerization and Orchestration: Oversee containerized application deployments using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm. Improve application portability, resource utilization, and deployment reliability. Monitoring and Performance Optimization: Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack. Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, troubleshoot incidents, and implement improvements to maintain service availability. Security and Compliance: Integrate security controls and governance requirements into automated workflows. Apply best practices for networking, firewalls, access management, and security protocols while supporting compliance with relevant organizational standards. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline deployment workflows, resolve infrastructure challenges, and improve coordination throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Incident Management and Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve deployment failures, infrastructure issues, and production incidents across cloud and on-premises environments. Identify root causes and implement preventive measures to reduce recurring problems. Continuous Improvement and Cost Optimization: Identify opportunities to improve release management, infrastructure efficiency, automation coverage, and cloud spending. Evaluate emerging technologies and practices to strengthen system reliability and operational performance. Team Mentorship: Guide and mentor junior engineers, share technical expertise, promote DevOps best practices, and encourage a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning. Requirements: Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, supported by relevant academic or vocational qualifications. Professional Experience: At least 8 years of relevant experience in DevOps, systems engineering, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, or related technical disciplines. AWS Expertise: Strong proficiency in AWS and its associated services, including experience designing, deploying, managing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications. CI/CD Engineering: Extensive experience building, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps. Infrastructure as Code: Proven experience implementing infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, or comparable tools. Containerization and Orchestration: Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including container lifecycle management, application deployment, and orchestration. Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages to automate operational tasks, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment workflows. Monitoring and Observability: Experience with monitoring, logging, and performance analysis tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack, with the ability to diagnose issues and improve system reliability. Networking and Security: Solid understanding of networking concepts, firewalls, security protocols, and infrastructure security practices, with the ability to integrate security and governance controls into automated environments. DevOps Strategy: Demonstrated ability to establish and improve DevOps processes, standardize deployment practices, and support reliable software delivery across multiple environments. Leadership and Mentorship: Experience leading technical initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams, mentoring junior engineers, and promoting engineering standards and best practices. Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Strong troubleshooting, analytical reasoning, and decision-making abilities, particularly when addressing complex infrastructure, deployment, and performance challenges. Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with development, QA, security, and operations stakeholders in distributed teams. Agile and DevSecOps Practices: Familiarity with agile methodologies and DevSecOps principles is an advantage. Additional Technical Experience: Knowledge of GitOps and ArgoCD, service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd, serverless architectures, and cloud cost optimization is desirable. Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 is beneficial. Working Hours: Availability to work from 5:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. India Standard Time (IST) to support the required operational schedule. Benefits: Fully Remote Work: Opportunity to work remotely from India. Technical Leadership: Lead DevOps initiatives and influence infrastructure architecture, automation strategies, and software delivery practices. Modern Technology Stack: Work with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD platforms, and advanced monitoring tools. Professional Development: Expand your expertise in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, security, and modern DevOps methodologies. Leadership Growth: Mentor engineers, shape technical standards, and develop your leadership capabilities. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with diverse technical teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable enterprise solutions. Continuous Innovation: Contribute to improvements in automation, system performance, cloud efficiency, and operational resilience.