Devops Manager
Location: Ahmedabad/Hyderabad
Exp: 14+ years
Experience Required: 14+ years total experience, with 45 years in managerial roles.
Technical Knowledge and Skills:
Mandatory:
- Cloud: GCP (Complete stack from IAM to GKE)
- CI/CD: End-to-end pipeline ownership (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD)
- IaC: Terraform, Helm Containers: Docker, Kubernetes DevSecOps: Vault, Trivy, OWASP
Nice to Have:
- FinOps exposure for cost optimization
- Big Data tools familiarity (BigQuery, Dataflow)
- Familiarity with Kong, Anthos, Istio
Scope:
- Lead DevOps team across multiple pods and products
- Define roadmap for automation, security, and CI/CD
- Ensure operational stability of deployment pipelines
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Architect and guide implementation of enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines that support multi-environment deployments, microservices architecture, and zero downtime delivery practices.
- Oversee Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives to establish consistent and compliant cloud provisioning using Terraform, Helm, and policy-as-code integrations.
- Champion DevSecOps practices by embedding security controls throughout the pipelineensuring image scanning, secrets encryption, policy checks, and runtime security enforcement
- Lead and manage a geographically distributed DevOps team, setting performance expectations, development plans, and engagement strategies.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering, QA, product, and SRE teams to establish integrated DevOps governance practices.
- Develop a framework for release readiness, rollback automation, change control, and environment reconciliation processes.
- Monitor deployment health, release velocity, lead time to recovery, and infrastructure cost optimization through actionable DevOps metrics dashboards
- Serve as the primary point of contact for C-level stakeholders during major infrastructure changes, incident escalations, or audits.
- Own the budgeting and cost management strategy for DevOps tooling, cloud consumption, and external consulting partnerships.
- Identify, evaluate, and onboard emerging DevOps technologies, ensuring team readiness through structured onboarding, POCs, and knowledge sessions.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and ownershipdriving internal tech talks, hackathons, and community engagement