Position Summary

The DevOps Lead Engineer is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP). This role drives infrastructure-as-code adoption, container orchestration, and observability practices while ensuring high system reliability and operational efficiency. The DevOps Lead Engineer mentors and guides DevOps team members, collaborates closely with engineering, security, and product teams, and embeds best practices in automation, governance, and cost optimization to support innovation and platform stability at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments

Architect, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps

Champion infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tools

Design and manage containerized environments using Docker and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes or managed Kubernetes services

Establish and enhance monitoring, logging, and observability platforms using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or cloud-native monitoring solutions

Lead DevOps team members by providing technical guidance, mentorship, and performance support

Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, security, and product teams to streamline release cycles and improve deployment reliability

Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, governance standards, and compliance requirements

Drive cloud cost optimization strategies and infrastructure efficiency initiatives

Promote a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement across platform and engineering teams

Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations

Contribute to documentation, standards development, and long-term platform architecture strategy

Other duties as assigned