Lead DevOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

DevOps Strategy & Leadership:

• Lead, mentor, and guide DevOps engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Define and implement DevOps best practices, architecture standards, and automation strategies.
• Collaborate with development, QA, SRE, and operations teams for seamless delivery.
• Translate technical risks into business impacts and decisions.
• Familiarity with Scrum/Kanban for DevOps.

CI/CD Pipeline Ownership:

• Architect, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, and GitOps workflows.
• Ensure robust code scanning, security checks, and quality gates.
• Drive continuous improvement in release automation and deployment.

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Build and manage containerized environments using Docker.
• Deploy, scale, and manage applications on Kubernetes.
• Implement GitOps-driven deployments using ArgoCD.

Infrastructure Automation:

• Design and automate infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and Puppet.
• Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code environments for scalable and immutable infrastructure.
• Improve operational efficiency through end-to-end automation.

Production Management & Reliability:

• Oversee production deployments, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of production systems.
• Manage environment configurations, release calendars, and change management.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE):

• Ensure reliability, scalability, and availability of production systems.
• Implement observability best practices – monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk).
• Optimize system performance, cost, and operational efficiency.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Work closely with engineering leadership to align the DevOps roadmap with business goals.
• Drive knowledge sharing, documentation, and process improvements.
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders.