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Lead DevOps Engineer
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Role overview
Lead DevOps engineering and release management across cloud platforms, building secure, scalable infrastructure and dependable delivery workflows. The role combines hands-on work with technical leadership: guiding cloud migrations, improving platform operations, and coordinating release practices among development, quality, and operations teams. Production support may include on-call rotations and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain GitOps and CI/CD workflows, and improve release processes for platforms and software libraries. - Provision cloud resources with infrastructure as code and administer Kubernetes environments. - Develop logging and observability capabilities, including systems built with OpenTelemetry. - Improve infrastructure security, cost efficiency, network design, access controls, and cloud governance. - Lead workload migrations from Azure to Google Cloud while minimizing service disruption. - Coordinate Agile delivery and release practices across engineering, product, quality, and operations; use retrospectives to drive improvements.
Requirements
- At least eight years of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a related field, including five years in hands-on DevOps work. - At least two years managing releases for platforms or application libraries. - Practical engineering experience with both Azure and Google Cloud environments. - Strong experience with CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes administration, and the CNCF ecosystem. - Knowledge of infrastructure security, cost optimization, scalability, and reliability. - An active CKA or CKAD certification, or a relevant cloud architecture certification. - Experience leading Agile ceremonies and strong problem-solving and cross-team communication skills.
Nice to have
- Background in healthcare technology or another regulated industry, including familiarity with HIPAA, privacy requirements, and sensitive data handling. - Experience mentoring engineers or leading broad technical initiatives.