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.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- 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.
Experience with API Gateway, service mesh, or advanced AKS networking.
Key Responsibilities
1. 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).
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
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