Senior DevOps Strategist

This is a key strategic and technical leadership position within an engineering team. The role is instrumental 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, the individual will ensure the delivery of robust, scalable, and efficient software solutions.

Key responsibilities include defining and executing the DevOps strategy for application development, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational standards.

Additionally, the individual will architect, implement, and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for multiple application teams, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure delivery of software releases.

They will also lead the automation of manual tasks throughout the application lifecycle, including testing, deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring.

Furthermore, the individual will act as a bridge between development, operations, and QA teams to remove silos, facilitate communication, and promote shared responsibilities.

Other key responsibilities include guiding the migration and deployment of applications to cloud or hybrid infrastructures, leveraging best practices for scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

Establishing and enhancing application monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability, performance, and rapid incident response are also essential duties.

The individual will 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 analyze 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 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.

Accelerated application delivery cycles without compromising quality or security.

Consistent adoption of DevOps best practices across teams.

Growth and development of DevOps team members.

Maintain accurate and timely recording of time and tasks to enable effective monitoring and reporting of effort.

Support Group assurance programs by promoting effective risk management and compliance practices.