DevOps Leader

The DevOps Leader is a player/coach who will lead the company’s common engineering team including DevOps engineers.

Your core responsibility is to own the lab/cloud infrastructure as well as CI/CD pipelines.

Your role is critical in ensuring seamless integration, deployment, and automation of software development, testing, and operations.

You will work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline processes and ensure reliable and scalable infrastructure that supports high-quality, rapid software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor DevOps engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient and automated software delivery.
• Implement and maintain configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) to standardize and automate deployment processes.
• Collaborate with software development, QA, and operations teams to optimize the release process and reduce deployment times.
• Drive the adoption of DevOps best practices, including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Ensure system security, compliance, and auditing procedures are followed.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively manage production issues.
• Identify opportunities for automation and improvements in development and operations processes.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and tools to continuously improve DevOps practices. Define product software and platform architecture for products under their responsibility, specifically to align with cloud infrastructure and best practices.
• Plan and manage the adoption of new cloud infrastructure within the engineering teams and through the wider business
• Analyse and track market, technology and competitors related to the cloud infrastructure and best practices.
• Act as the internal go-to person for all cloud-based direction
• Support Pre-Sales and Product Business Managers in generation of customer facing collateral
• Support Sales teams and Technical Solution Architects with product & cloud architecture knowledge.
• Lead Engineering in defining and translating cloud architecture into development and ensuring Engineering solutions meet the architectural definition

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, including cloud infrastructure management, automation, and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Openstack, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and system administration.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Strong leadership, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Broad and extensive knowledge of cloud platforms and operations , including migration of applications to thee platforms as well as software development process and its technologies

Preferred Specialized Qualifications:

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Certification in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, etc.).
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless computing.