Lead DevOps Engineer
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Design and operate Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters, enforce DevOps standards, and lead a team while ensuring CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices.
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Overview
As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will design and operate Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters mainly in on-prem environments and some hybrid environments.
You will own the cluster lifecycle, including upgrades, storage integration, and production troubleshooting to ensure engineering teams can deliver quickly.
You will lead a team of 3/4 engineers while enforcing DevOps standards across CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
You will be responsible for building observability frameworks and partnering with security teams to embed identity and network guardrails.
This role requires strong hands-on experience operating Linux-based systems and Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters in on-prem and hybrid environments, including ownership of cluster lifecycle, upgrades, storage integration, and production troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Strong hands-on experience operating Linux-based systems and Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters in on-prem and hybrid environments.
- Champion DevOps principles within an enterprise hybrid architecture involving Azure cloud and on-prem storage solutions.
- Standardize CI/CD frameworks using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Ensure Infrastructure as Code practices such as Terraform and Ansible are applied consistently.
- Implement guardrails for container orchestration platforms including scaling and networking.
- Establish observability standards for metrics and logs across all workloads.
- Define operational SLOs and SLAs for platform services to ensure peak performance.
- Oversee the creation of runbooks and automated remediation processes.
- Partner with DataOps and AI teams to provide secure environments for model training and deployment.
- Optimize infrastructure utilization to maintain a balance between cost and performance.
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