DevOps Manager

About the Role

We are seeking an accomplished DevOps Lead with 12+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, Blockchain, and CI/CD processes. The DevOps Lead will play a pivotal role in architecting scalable cloud environments, driving automation, ensuring secure deployments, and enabling efficient software delivery pipelines. The role involves working with AWS, Huawei Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, blockchain-based infrastructure, and modern DevOps toolchains while providing leadership, technical guidance, and client-facing communication.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

● Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers, setting technical direction and ensuring adherence to best practices.

● Facilitate collaboration across engineering, QA, security, and blockchain development teams.

● Act as the primary technical liaison with clients, managing expectations, requirements, and solution delivery.

Infrastructure Automation & Management

● Architect, implement, and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform across multi-cloud environments.

● Standardize environments across AWS, Digital Ocean, Huawei Cloud with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.

● Manage provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and cost optimization of infrastructure resources.

CI/CD & Automation

● Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple applications and microservices.

● Integrate automated testing, static code analysis, and security scans into the pipelines.

● Implement blue-green / canary deployments and ensure zero downtime release strategies.

● Promote DevSecOps by embedding security policies into every phase of the delivery pipeline.

Containerization & Orchestration

● Deploy, manage, and monitor applications on Kubernetes clusters (EKS, CCE, or equivalent).

● Utilize Helm charts, Kustomize, and operators for environment consistency.

● Optimize container performance and manage networking, storage, and secrets.

Monitoring, Logging & Incident Response

● Implement and manage monitoring and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Loki).

● Define SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for production systems.

● Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.

Governance, Security & Compliance

● Implement best practices for secrets management, key rotation, and role-based access control.

● Integrate vulnerability scanning and security audits into pipelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications

● 12+ years of experience in DevOps, with at least 5+ years in a lead capacity.

● Proven expertise with Terraform and IaC across multiple environments.

● Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Huawei Cloud infrastructure services.

● Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster administration, scaling, monitoring, and networking.

● Advanced experience designing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.

● Solid background in automated deployments, configuration management, and version control (Git, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef).

● Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).

● Proficiency with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog).

● Strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure, node operations, staking setups, and deployment automation.

● Knowledge of container security, network policies, and zero-trust principles.

● Excellent communication, client handling, and stakeholder management skills with proven ability to present complex DevOps concepts to non-technical audiences.

● Ability to design and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems in production environments.