Leading DevOps Strategist

The DevOps Lead will play a key strategic and technical leadership role within our engineering team. This position is instrumental in shaping and advancing our organization's DevOps culture and capabilities.

This includes spearheading the implementation, integration, and ongoing refinement of DevOps methodologies across all applications. By fostering collaboration between development, operations, and quality assurance, the individual 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the DevOps strategy for application development, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational standards.
• Architect, implement, and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for multiple application teams, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure delivery of software releases.
• Lead the automation of manual tasks throughout the application lifecycle, including testing, deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring.
• Act as a bridge between development, operations, and QA teams to remove silos, facilitate communication, and promote shared responsibilities.
• Guide the migration and deployment of applications to cloud or hybrid infrastructures, leveraging best practices for scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Establish and enhance application monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability, performance, and rapid incident response.
• Foster a culture of feedback and iteration by implementing metrics-driven improvements and promoting innovative approaches to DevOps challenges.
• Drive technological innovation by exploring AI-enhanced tools and industry-leading practices to shape and evolve long-term DevOps strategies.
• 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.
• Develop/update the code build using scripting skills in language like Maven, YAML Classical Editor.
• Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Service Fabrics) across the application portfolio.
• Develop and enforce automated testing frameworks, including unit, integration, and security testing within pipelines using Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• 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 using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, etc.
• 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.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to gather and analyse requirements for developing effective IT solutions.
• Lead and inspire the team to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Sets clear, realistic goals and performance standards; and organise performance review sessions with the team on their development plan and career.
• 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
• Achieve accelerated application delivery cycles without compromising quality or security.
• Consistent adoption of 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.
• Support organisational assurance programs by promoting effective risk management and compliance practices.
• Experience & Personal Attributes
• Overall experience of 13+ years in IT industry, minimum 8 years of experience in DevOps.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are highly desirable.
• Experience of DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Git, Azure DevOps, SVN, Maven, NuGet, ProGet, TeamCity, Octopus), scripting (YAML, Python, PowerShell), and application development frameworks.
• Experience to design, configure and maintain the SonarQube Enterprise code quality tool.
• Experience in design code branching, merging and strategies from Feature to release and master branch.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, New Relic) and building observability into applications.
• Proficiency with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and cloud-native services.
• Strong experience in CICD unification program (e.g: Gitlab, TeamCity, Octopus & SVN to DevOps or GitHub)
• Deep understanding of container-based deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and orchestration strategies.
• Demonstrated leadership of DevOps or application development teams, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Experience managing competing priorities, timelines, and deliverables in an Agile or DevOps environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to learn new technologies and be able to work and deliver high quality documentation in a challenging environment.
• 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.
• Experience working in an outsourced or offshored environment.