DevOps Team Lead

Description

Who Are We?

MDClone is a big-data analytics startup on a mission to transform global healthcare. We help healthcare providers make the most of their data to drive real impact—improving patient health, clinical outcomes, and business success.

What Are We Looking For?

We’re looking for a visionary, people-driven, and hands-on DevOps Team Lead to join our R&D leadership team. The ideal candidate brings strong architectural thinking and acts as a true driver of strategy and transformation — someone who continuously pushes the organization toward a long-term DevOps vision. While technical proficiency is important, we value architectural leadership and strategic influence even more.

In this role, you’ll lead a team of DevOps engineers while owning the strategy, scalability, and reliability of our infrastructure and deployment processes. You’ll guide DevOps culture, champion modern tooling and automation, and ensure production readiness across the organization.

This is a key leadership role for someone who thrives on shaping the big picture, influencing stakeholders, and inspiring a high-performance DevOps culture through clarity of vision and strong architectural direction.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading and mentoring the DevOps team, providing guidance, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and ownership.
• Driving architectural decisions and enforcing a cohesive DevOps vision, collaborating with other technical leads to align on scalable and resilient infrastructure strategies.
• Defining and championing the long-term DevOps roadmap, including tool selection, architecture evolution, cloud transformation, and scalability goals
• Overseeing the development of tools and frameworks that automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, and scaling of applications and infrastructure.
• Designing and enforcing CI/CD strategies and pipelines, working closely with R&D, QA, and system engineering teams to streamline software delivery.
• Setting and upholding high professional standards for development, deployment, observability, and operations within the DevOps domain.
• Defining the long-term DevOps roadmap, including tool selection, architecture evolution, and scalability goals.
• Ensuring availability and stability of customer-facing production environments, proactively resolving incidents, and driving root-cause analyses and continuous improvement.
• Writing and reviewing code (e.g., in Python, Bash, Groovy) and supporting infrastructure-as-code to enhance monitoring, deployment, and disaster recovery.
• Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to align infrastructure capabilities with product and business goals.
• Reporting on key DevOps KPIs such as deployment frequency, system reliability, and incident recovery.
• Planning and executing a shift from on-prem to cloud-native platforms.
• Exploring and integrating AI-powered tools to enhance delivery velocity and team productivity.

Professional Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a strong record of technical hands-on work.
• 2+ years in a leadership or team lead position in DevOps or infrastructure teams.
• Experience designing infrastructure and system architecture – strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem, with extensive hands-on experience in container orchestration platforms such as Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, and cloud-native solutions like AKS and EKS.
• Proven hands-on expertise in Linux environments on cloud platforms and on-premises.
• Proficiency in languages/IaaC like Python, Bash, Groovy, and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), 
• Advantage: Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring tools (ECK, Prometheus, Grafana) and production automation workflows.
• Strong knowledge of Git tools and branching workflows.
• Experience in Big Data environments and/or healthcare domains – an advantage.
• Infrastructure and system architecture design capabilities – an advantage.
• Experience in shifting Platfrom to cloud-native - an advantage
• Experience in integrating AI tools - an advantage

Personal Skills

• Strong architectural mindset with the ability to articulate and push forward a compelling long-term vision.
• Proven ability to lead teams in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• A fast learner, curious and quick to adopt new tools, techniques, and technologies.
• Strong collaborative and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Creative, outside-the-box thinker who enjoys solving complex challenges and improving systems.
• Passionate about building reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems.

Requirements

Professional Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a strong record of technical hands-on work.
• 2+ years in a leadership or team lead position in DevOps or infrastructure teams.
• Experience designing infrastructure and system architecture – strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem, with extensive hands-on experience in container orchestration platforms such as Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, and cloud-native solutions like AKS and EKS.
• Proven hands-on expertise in Linux environments on cloud platforms and on-premises.
• Proficiency in languages/IaaC like Python, Bash, Groovy, and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), 
• Advantage: Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring tools (ECK, Prometheus, Grafana) and production automation workflows.
• Strong knowledge of Git tools and branching workflows.
• Experience in Big Data environments and/or healthcare domains – an advantage.
• Infrastructure and system architecture design capabilities – an advantage.
• Experience in shifting Platfrom to cloud-native - an advantage
• Experience in integrating AI tools - an advantage

Personal Skills

• Strong architectural mindset with the ability to articulate and push forward a compelling long-term vision.
• Proven ability to lead teams in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• A fast learner, curious and quick to adopt new tools, techniques, and technologies.
• Strong collaborative and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Creative, outside-the-box thinker who enjoys solving complex challenges and improving systems.
• Passionate about building reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems.