Head of DevOps

Head of DevOps (Remote)

Experience: 1015 years (with 5+ years in DevOps leadership)

About the Role

We are looking for a Head of DevOps to own and scale our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform reliability. This role will lead the DevOps function end-to-end, drive automation, security, and performance, and partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Security teams to support rapid and reliable product delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Strategy

Define and execute the DevOps strategy, roadmap, and best practices across the organization

Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing DevOps / SRE team

Establish SLAs, SLOs, and reliability standards across environments

Collaborate closely with Engineering leadership to improve deployment velocity and system stability

Infrastructure, Cloud & Platform

Own and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS / Azure / GCP

Design scalable, highly available, and cost-optimized architectures

Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Terraform / CloudFormation

Manage and scale containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes

Configure and manage NGINX and HAProxy for traffic routing and load balancing

CI/CD & Automation

Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab (self-managed), GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.

Own and maintain on-prem, self-managed GitLab with end-to-end automation

Drive automation across build, test, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning

Reduce deployment failures and MTTR through tooling and process improvements

Reliability, Monitoring & Security

Implement and manage observability platforms including:

Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Alertmanager, NetData

Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortems

Partner with Security teams to enforce DevSecOps best practices

Manage edge security, CDN, and proxy layers using Cloudflare (Workers, R2, Security, Auditing, Proxy)

Databases & Application Operations

Oversee performance, availability, and reliability of databases and caches:

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis

Support and manage Node.js administration in production environments

Required Skills & Qualifications

1015 years of experience in DevOps / Infrastructure / SRE roles

5+ years of experience leading DevOps or Platform teams

Strong expertise in Linux, networking, and system architecture

Deep hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and IaC

Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Nice to Have

Experience in SaaS / B2B / high-scale platforms

Strong exposure to microservices architecture

FinOps / cloud cost optimization experience

Prior experience building DevOps from scratch or scaling teams rapidly

Why Adit

We are a fast-paced organization in a phase of sustained, strategic scale and expansion.

We offer remote opportunities with Flexible work schedules for better work-life balance.

Group of 600+ Agile, Smart, and Dynamic IT Professionals.

Supportive and collaborative work environment.

Great working and learning environment