Lead Engineer - DevOps

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer. As a Lead, you will manage and mentor a team of 3–4 DevOps Engineers while also operating as a strong individual contributor (approximately 75% of your capacity). You will own the modernization, reliability, and scalability of our DevOps ecosystem—driving CI/CD excellence, enhancing release operations, strengthening infrastructure automation, and ensuring smooth deployments across multiple global regions.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10–15 years of total experience, with at least 4–5 years in senior/lead DevOps roles.
• Strong expertise in Azure cloud, including AKS, Azure Networking, MySQL PaaS, IAM, Storage.
• Deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, and container lifecycle management.
• Expertise in CI/CD using:
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• GitHub Actions (migration experience is a strong advantage)
• Strong, hands-on IaC experience:
• YAML-based templates (ADO/GitHub)
• Terraform (must-have for upcoming initiatives)
• Strong understanding of multi-region deployments, artifact management, and release orchestration.
• Solid debugging skills for pipelines, container workloads, connectivity, performance, and MySQL/Azure PaaS behaviour.
• Excellent understanding of monitoring, logs, and alerting using Datadog , Azure Log Analytics (ALA), etc.
• Experience with Secrets Management via Vault or equivalent.
• Strong scripting in PowerShell is mandatory. Exposure to Bash/Python is a plus.
• Exposure to CI/CD build processes for .NET and Angular applications (dotnet CLI, NuGet, npm/Angular CLI), with the ability to troubleshoot build and dependency issues.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow DevOps engineers.
  
  

• Experience with JIRA, ServiceNow, or enterprise ITSM processes.
• Feature flag systems (Azure App Configuration, or similar).
• Experience in Power BI
• Knowledge of GitOps practices (ArgoCD/Flux).
• Exposure to FinOps, cost optimization, and cloud governance.
  
  
  

• Platform & Infrastructure Engineering
• Lead design, deployment, and optimization of infrastructure on Azure (AKS, VMSS/IaaS, Azure PaaS services—especially Azure App Services, Key Vault, Service Bus, Az Redis, AZ Entra ID,MySQL).
• Own and improve container orchestration workflows using Docker & AKS.
• Drive segregation of services into individual AKS pods for improved reliability and scalability.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform (transition from existing Classic/YAML-based IaC in ADO/GitHub).
• CI/CD & Release Engineering
• Own end-to-end CI/CD pipelines across ADO and GitHub Actions.
• Lead the migration from Azure DevOps pipelines → GitHub Actions.
• Leads Hands Free release transition
• Maintain and optimize build & release pipelines for over 20+ services deployed to global regions.
• Develop automated, hands-free deployment processes with guardrails, validations, and rollback mechanisms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline failures, environment issues, and release blockers—including MySQL PaaS-related issues.
• Support release execution across multiple global regions, ensuring release readiness, consistency of configuration, and alignment of deployments.
• Support production release, ensure gaps in release configuration are identified and resolved proactively.
• Help standardize, automate, and optimize release workflows to improve predictability and reduce manual steps.
• Reliability & Operations
• Ensure reliability and health of AKS workloads across multiple regions.
• Set up effective monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using Datadog, Azure Log Analytics, and related tools.
• Manage secrets and configurations using Vault and Azure-native services.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve service resilience, deployment patterns, and release quality.
• Leadership & Collaboration
• Lead and mentor a DevOps team of 3–4 engineers.
• Collaborate closely with Development, QA, SRE, Architecture, Security, and Program Management.
• Define standards, best practices, and governance for CI/CD, IaC, and release management.
• Drive a culture of automation, performance optimization, and continuous improvement.