Senior DevOps Architect

The Technical Lead, DevOps role is a strategic and technical leadership position within an engineering team. This role plays a crucial part in shaping and advancing the organization's DevOps culture and capabilities.

The individual in this position 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 teams, they 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.
• Integrate security practices and tools into the development pipeline to ensure compliance with internal and external standards.
• 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.

Operational Management:

• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to enable high-velocity application delivery.
• 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 pipelines.
• Develop/update the code build using scripting skills in languages like Maven, YAML, Classical Editor.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for repeatable and auditable infrastructure management (Code branching, Merging, and pull request workflow).
• Drive containerization and orchestration strategies (e.g., 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 like 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.

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; and organize 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.
• Ensure high reliability and uptime of critical applications.
• Consistently adopt DevOps best practices across teams.
• Promote growth and development of DevOps team members.
• Maintain accurate and timely recording of time and tasks to enable effective monitoring and reporting of effort.