Role: Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 7+ years

Immediate Joiners Only

Who We Are Looking For

We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own our cloud, automation, and reliability strategy. The ideal candidate brings expert scripting, deep multi-cloud experience (AWS primary; Azure/GCP), infrastructure-as-code mastery, container-platform ownership, mature observability and security posture, and a solid understanding of modern data technologies. This is a hands-on leadership role: setting standards, driving architecture, and mentoring the team.

This role requires solid architectural judgement, the ability to lead automation and platform initiatives end-to-end, and the capability to raise engineering standards across application, infrastructure, and data layers.

Key Responsibilities

- Own DevOps, platform, and cloud strategy and architecture
- Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure systems
- Set and govern standards for IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security
- Architect and govern Jenkins CI/CD across multiple teams
- Drive container-platform strategy across Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
- Own AWS security posture and compliance




- Guide data-platform infrastructure — Lakehouse / Warehouse / Databricks and BI (QuickSight / Power BI)
- Champion AIOps and observability maturity
- Lead FinOps governance and cost strategy
- Mentor and grow senior and junior engineers

Must-Have Skills

Scripting

- Expert scripting in Python and Bash

Cloud & Infrastructure-as-Code

- Deep, architecture-level, hands-on AWS (or Azure); multi-cloud fluency
- IaC mastery with Terraform and/or Ansible

CI/CD & Version Control

- Expertise designing and governing Jenkins CI/CD pipelines; Git

Containers

- Production ownership of Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift

Observability

- Mature, hands-on experience with observability frameworks and SRE practices

Security

- Strong ownership of security posture practices on AWS

Data Technologies

- Good understanding of Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Databricks, QuickSight, and Power BI

Networking

- Advanced routing, Transit Gateways, Site-to-Site VPN, Client VPN

Leadership

- Proven leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration

Good-to-Have Skills

- AIOps at scale
- Deep multi-cloud experience across Azure and GCP
- FinOps at organizational scale
- AWS Professional / Specialty certifications

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