Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Description :

About The Role:

To support our platform’s scale and maturity, the Enterprise Software Cloud Engineering team is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to drive the design and development of our production infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and observability platforms. You will work closely with engineering and SRE teams to implement scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure solutions across ourKubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem. This role combines architecture, hands-on engineering, and mentoring responsibilities.

In this role, you will:

1. Lead design and architecture for scalable DevOps solutions across Kubernetes, CI/CD,and infrastructure automation
2. Build and manage secure,resilient, and high-performance infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Ansible
3. Own and enhance observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk) to support SLO-driven operations
4. Drive cost optimization, performance tuning, and security best practices across cloud infrastructure
5. Lead AI enablement initiatives using tools like Claude for codegeneration, automation, and developer productivity
6. Collaborate with engineering teamson incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem culture
7. Influence system and application SLOs/SLIs in partnership with engineering stakeholders
8. Implement GitOps and CI/CD practices using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD
9. Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices across cloud engineering and automation domains
10. Support platformreliability through sustainable on-call practices and cross-team collaboration
11. This role needs a 2 hour overlap with the US team in Pacific Hours. Candidates should be open to flexible work timings.

About You

You enjoyan agile, fast paced and highly technical environment. You are a self-driven person, do not need to be micromanaged, can wear multiple hats and drive tasks and projects to the finish line. You are effective in communicating technical and

non-technical information across team boundaries.

Inaddition, you bring

1. 12+ years of solid DevOps and release orchestration experience deploying highlyavailable, rapidly scalable cloud-based services (AWS, GCP, etc.)
2. 10+years of strong Linux knowledge(RHEL 6/7/8, RHCSA/RHCE, CentOS)
3. 7+ years of experience running Kubernetes, Docker,or Linux in production environments
4. 7+ years working with cloud-native tools: container security, servicemesh, static analysis,proxies, and networking
5. 7+ years buildingand managing CI/CD platforms (e.g., Jenkins) with frequent releases
6. 5+ years of experience automating infrastructure with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Jenkins
7. 5+ years of programming experience in cloud operations using Python, Go, Ruby, or Java
8. 3+ years of Hands-onexperience implementing and tuning observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Splunk)
9. Expertise in Git and version controlbest practices
10. Strong troubleshooting skills for distributed systems, infrastructure, and pipelines
11. Proven communication skills with the abilityto align technical work with stakeholder needs
12. Experience defining and driving SLOs and SLIs in collaboration with engineering and business stakeholders
13. Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, QA, product, and customer-facing teams