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Title: DevOps Engineer – Lead
Any City(Need to work from the nearest client location)
Role Description:
As a DevOps Engineer – Lead, you will design, build, and operate automation-first CI/CD and deployment pipelines for applications and infrastructure. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership to improve release velocity, reliability, and security across environments. You will partner closely with application teams, platform/infrastructure teams, and security to standardize deployment patterns, streamline operations, and drive continuous improvement.
Must Have Skillset:
- Proven experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or build/release engineering with lead responsibilities
- Strong hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), including deployment and rollback strategies
- Strong scripting skills (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, Python) to automate operational workflows
- Experience implementing observability practices (logging, metrics, alerting) and supporting incident response and root cause analysis
- Strong communication skills to align stakeholders on deployment standards, environments, and release readiness
- Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments
- Standardize build, test, release, and rollback processes across teams and environments
- Automation and Infrastructure Enablement:
- Automate provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code and reusable modules/templates
- Reduce manual operational effort by automating repetitive deployment and environment management tasks
- Reliability, Operations, and Support:
- Improve deployment reliability through quality gates, pipeline controls, and environment health checks
- Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements related to deployments and platform tooling
- Collaboration and Technical Leadership:
- Partner with developers, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to implement secure and compliant delivery practices
- Mentor engineers, conduct reviews of pipeline and automation changes, and drive DevOps best practices
Key Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership & Development:
- Technical expertise, hands-on experience with ability to lead the development team.
- Should be able to mentor team members and guide on the right approach for SRE related work.
- Foster a culture of operational excellence, automation, and continuous learning
- Conduct regular team meetings, 1:1s, and performance reviews
- CI/CD and Deployment Engineering:
Nice to Have Experiences/Skills:
- Experience with GitOps and progressive delivery approaches (e.g., Argo CD/Flux, canary/blue-green deployments)
- Familiarity with secrets management and policy controls (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, cloud key vaults, OPA/Gatekeeper)
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices such as SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and SBOM generation in pipelines
- Exposure to service mesh and advanced Kubernetes operations (e.g., Istio/Linkerd, ingress, autoscaling, network policies)
- Experience supporting regulated environments with audit-ready change management and deployment traceability
