Lead DevOps Engineer

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.