Senior DevOps Leader

The role of Technical Lead, DevOps is a strategic and technical leadership position within the engineering team.

This position is instrumental in shaping and advancing the organization's DevOps culture and capabilities.

As a key player in the software delivery lifecycle, you will be responsible for spearheading the implementation, integration, and ongoing refinement of DevOps methodologies across all applications.

By fostering collaboration between development, operations, and quality assurance, you will ensure the delivery of robust, scalable, and efficient software solutions.

This includes driving automation, enhancing deployment pipelines, and promoting CI/CD practices to support innovation, agility, and operational excellence.

• Strategic Focus: Define and execute the DevOps strategy for application development, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational standards.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Architect, implement, and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for multiple application teams, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure delivery of software releases.
• Automation: Lead the automation of manual tasks throughout the application lifecycle, including testing, deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring.
• Team Collaboration: Act as a bridge between development, operations, and QA teams to remove silos, facilitate communication, and promote shared responsibilities.
• Cloud Migration: Guide the migration and deployment of applications to cloud or hybrid infrastructures, leveraging best practices for scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Monitoring and Logging: Establish and enhance application monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability, performance, and rapid incident response.
• DevSecOps: Integrate security practices and tools into the development pipeline to ensure compliance with internal and external standards.
• Culture of Feedback: Foster a culture of feedback and iteration by implementing metrics-driven improvements and promoting innovative approaches to DevOps challenges.
• Technological Innovation: Drive technological innovation by exploring AI-enhanced tools and industry-leading practices to shape and evolve long-term DevOps strategies.

• CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to enable high-velocity application delivery.
• Toolchain Experience: Apply experience of working on CI/CD tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus, Maven, NuGet, ProGet or similar to create or update build packages and deployment pipeline.
• Scripting Skills: Develop/update the code build using scripting skills in language like Maven, YAML Classical Editor.
• IaC Practices: Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for repeatable and auditable infrastructure management (Code branching, Merging and pull request workflow).
• Containerization: Drive containerization and orchestration strategies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Service Fabrics) across the application portfolio.
• Automated Testing: Develop and enforce automated testing frameworks, including unit, integration, and security testing within pipelines using Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Tool Evaluation: Continuously evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to optimize the software delivery lifecycle.
• Logging and Monitoring: Ensure applications are monitored and supported with actionable logging, metrics, health checks, and uptime dashboards using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, etc.
• Policies and Compliance: Implement and uphold policies for access control, patching, vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance.
• Post-Incident Reviews: Facilitate post-incident reviews and root cause analysis to drive system and process improvements.
• Documentation: Document DevOps architectures, processes, and standards for reuse and knowledge sharing.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with business leaders, project managers, and technical teams to align DevOps initiatives with organizational priorities.

• Overall Experience: 13+ years in IT industry, minimum 8 years of experience in DevOps.
• Certifications: Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are highly desirable.
• Toolchain Experience: Experience of DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Git, Azure DevOps, SVN, Maven, NuGet, ProGet, TeamCity, Octopus), scripting (YAML, Python, PowerShell), and application development frameworks.
• SonarQube Experience: Experience to design, configure and maintain the SonarQube Enterprise code quality tool.
• Code Branching: Experience in design code branching, merging and strategies from Feature to release and master branch.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, New Relic) and building observability into applications.
• Security Concepts: Solid grasp of security concepts, tools (Sonar, JaCoCo and Fortify on Demand), and practices in DevSecOps pipelines (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management, etc.).
• Cloud Platforms: Proficiency with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and cloud-native services.
• CICD Unification: Strong experience in CICD unification program (e.g.: - Gitlab, TeamCity, Octopus & SVN to DevOps or GitHub).
• Container-Based Deployments: Deep understanding of container-based deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and orchestration strategies.
• Leadership Experience: Demonstrated leadership of DevOps or application development teams, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Agile Environment: Experience managing competing priorities, timelines, and deliverables in an Agile or DevOps environment.

• Excellent Leadership: Excellent leadership skills.
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to resolve technical challenges quickly and effectively.
• Delegation Skills: Ability to delegate, inspire, motivate, and communicate effectively with the team.
• Continuous Learning: Ability to learn new technologies and be able to work and deliver high-quality documentation in a challenging environment.
• Organisational Skills: Sound organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise conflicting tasks to meet strict deadlines.
• Customer Interface: Excellent customer interfacing skills.
• Results-Oriented: A drive to deliver results and respond resourcefully to opportunities and challenges through dedication dependability and the taking of prompt action.
• Problem-Solving: A high level of analytical ability with an innovative approach to problem-solving and a creative mindset towards the use of technology and attention to detail.
• Judgment and Decision-Making: Ability to identify and analyse issues/problems, develop solutions, and use judgment to make sound and dependable decisions.
• Communication Skills: Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to make a positive impact and to influence others to deliver service to the business.
• Offshored Environment: Experience working in an outsourced or offshored environment.
• Self-Motivation: Self-motivated with a strong team spirit.