Lead DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to own our cloud, automation, and reliability strategy. The ideal candidate brings expert scripting, deep multi-cloud experience (AWS primary; Azure/GCP), infrastructure-as-code mastery, container-platform ownership, mature observability and security posture, and a solid understanding of modern data technologies. This is a hands-on leadership role: setting standards, driving architecture, and mentoring the team. This role requires strong architectural judgement, the ability to lead automation and platform initiatives end-to-end, and the capability to raise engineering standards across application, infrastructure, and data layers.

Responsibilities:

• Own DevOps, platform, and cloud strategy and architecture.
• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure systems.
• Set and govern standards for IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security.
• Architect and govern Jenkins CI/CD across multiple teams.
• Drive container-platform strategy across Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Own AWS security posture and compliance.
• Guide data-platform infrastructure Lakehouse / Warehouse / Databricks and BI (QuickSight / Power BI).
• Champion AIOps and observability maturity.
• Lead FinOps governance and cost strategy.
• Mentor and grow senior and junior engineers.

Requirements:

• Strong scripting in Python and/or Bash.
• Deep, architecture-level, hands-on AWS (or Azure); multi-cloud fluency.
• IaC mastery with Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Expertise designing and governing Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Git.
• Production ownership of Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Mature, hands-on experience with observability frameworks and SRE practices.
• Strong ownership of security posture practices on AWS.
• Good understanding of Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Databricks, QuickSight, and Power BI.
• Advanced routing, transit gateways, site-to-site VPN, and client VPN.
• Proven leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.

Preferred Skills:

• AIOps at scale.
• Deep multi-cloud experience across Azure and GCP.
• FinOps at organizational scale.
• AWS Professional / Specialty certifications.