Job Summary
About the Role
We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to own the deployment, reliability, and operational tooling for DDN Control Plane — a multi-tenant control-plane platform built on Go microservices (the Platform Core foundation plus domain services including Control Plane, Control Store, and Augmented Support) that must run reliably across on-premises, air-gapped, and hosted/SaaS environments.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will set infrastructure architecture, build and operate the Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability foundation the team relies on, and actively apply AI tooling and agentic workflows to reduce operational toil. You will partner closely with development, QA, and product teams to ship dependable systems at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Own the Kubernetes + Helm deployment architecture for Control Plane's Go-based microservices (core, Control Plane-ctrl, Control Plane-store, augmented-support), supporting on-premises, air-gapped, and SaaS deployment models.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security scanning,



and release of containerized services.
Build and operate the observability stack: structured logging (Fluent Bit → S3), OpenTelemetry tracing, metrics, and alerting.
Manage NATS cluster infrastructure (core and JetStream) supporting inter-service messaging, including account and permission configuration.
Own secrets management (Kubernetes Secrets, key rotation) and enforce FIPS 140-3 compliant cryptography and TLS configuration across services.
Partner with engineering teams to define infrastructure-as-code (Helm charts, GitOps) and automate provisioning across environments.
Drive reliability practices — SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and disaster recovery — for a multi-tenant control plane.
Champion and operationalize AI-assisted tooling to automate operational toil such as triage, deployment validation, and incident response.
Ensure secure, least-privilege access across clusters, S3-compa

📌 Lead DevOps Engineer (India)
🏢 DDN
📍 India