DevOps Lead

Job Overview

The DevOps Lead is a senior technical leadership position responsible for shaping and advancing the organization's DevOps culture and capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a strategic DevOps roadmap aligned with business goals and organizational standards.
• Architect, implement, and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for multiple application teams.
• Lead automation efforts throughout the application lifecycle, including testing, deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring.
• Facilitate collaboration between development, operations, and QA teams to remove silos and promote shared responsibilities.
• Guide the migration and deployment of applications to cloud or hybrid infrastructures.
• Establish and enhance application monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Integrate security practices and tools into the development pipeline.
• Foster a culture of feedback and iteration by implementing metrics-driven improvements.
• Drive technological innovation by exploring AI-enhanced tools and industry-leading practices.

Operational Management

• Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to enable high-velocity application delivery.
• Apply experience working on CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus, Maven, NuGet, ProGet, or similar.
• Develop and update code builds using scripting skills in languages like Maven, YAML, Classical Editor.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for repeatable and auditable infrastructure management.
• Drive containerization and orchestration strategies across the application portfolio.
• Develop and enforce automated testing frameworks within pipelines.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to optimize the software delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure applications are monitored and supported with actionable logging, metrics, health checks, and uptime dashboards.
• Implement and uphold policies for access control, patching, vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance.
• Facilitate post-incident reviews and root cause analysis to drive system and process improvements.
• Document DevOps architectures, processes, and standards for reuse and knowledge sharing.
• Engage with business leaders, project managers, and technical teams to align DevOps initiatives with organizational priorities.

People Leadership

• Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements for developing effective IT solutions.
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure timely completion of assigned tasks and promote effective use of technology for problem-solving.
• Lead and inspire the team to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement in both technical expertise and business acumen.
• Set clear, realistic goals and performance standards; organize performance review sessions with the team.
• Conduct timely reviews of team deliverables and provide support to enhance performance.
• Lead, mentor, and upskill DevOps engineers and developers on modern tools, technologies, and best practices.
• Manage DevOps team members, set objectives, and evaluate performance aligned to business outcomes.

Governance & Risk

• Accelerate application delivery cycles without compromising quality or security.
• Maintain high reliability and uptime of critical applications.
• Consistently adopt DevOps best practices across teams.
• Grow and develop DevOps team members.
• Maintain accurate and timely recording of time and tasks to enable effective monitoring and reporting of effort.
• Regularly audit team timesheets to ensure accuracy and timely updates.
• Support assurance programs by promoting effective risk management and compliance practices.

Experience & Personal Attributes

Experience

• Minimum 13 years of experience in IT, minimum 8 years in DevOps.
• Relevant certifications are highly desirable.
• Experience with DevOps toolchains, scripting, and application development frameworks.
• Experience designing, configuring, and maintaining SonarQube Enterprise code quality tool.
• Experience with code branching, merging, and strategies from feature to release and master branch.
• Experience with monitoring tools and building observability into applications.
• Solid grasp of security concepts, tools, and practices in DevSecOps pipelines.
• Proficiency with major cloud platforms, including infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and cloud-native services.
• Strong experience in CICD unification program.
• Deep understanding of container-based deployments and orchestration strategies.
• Demonstrated leadership of DevOps or application development teams.
• Experience managing competing priorities, timelines, and deliverables in an Agile or DevOps environment.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to resolve technical challenges quickly and effectively.
• Ability to delegate, inspire, motivate, and communicate effectively with the team.
• Ability to learn new technologies and work in a challenging environment.
• Sound organisational skills with ability to prioritise conflicting tasks to meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent customer interfacing skills.
• Drive to deliver results and respond resourcefully to opportunities and challenges.
• High level of analytical ability with innovative approach to problem solving.
• Ability to identify and analyse issues/problems, develop solutions, and make sound decisions.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with ability to make a positive impact.
• Self-motivated with strong team spirit.