Roles and Responsibilities:

Role summary

We are hiring a Senior DevOps Lead to own CI/CD, pipeline automation and
infrastructure migrations across on-premise and cloud environments, to lead a
DevOps team of at least 5–6 engineers, and to work hands-on as a forward
deployed engineer alongside client and internal development teams.

Item Detail

Role Senior DevOps Lead

Experience 8–12 years, all in DevOps or IT infrastructure

Team leadership Mandatory: has led a team of at least 5–6 members

Engagement model Hands-on forward deployed engineering with client teams

Location Bangalore

Employment type Full-time

Reports to Delivery / Project Manager

Shift model Rotational shifts in India, US and UK hours, with extended and
weekend support as needed

Key responsibilities:

* Migrations
* Plan and run migrations on-premise to cloud, cloud to cloud and between
on-premises environments
* Assess current infrastructure, applications and dependencies; define
migration waves, cutover and rollback plans
* Migrate databases and data with reconciliation and minimal downtime
* Run hybrid on-premise and cloud setups during transition
* CI/CD and automation
* Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security
scanning and deployment
* Automate infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code and configuration
management
* Set quality and security gates in pipelines (SAST, SCA, container scanning,
secrets)
* Standardise release, branching and environment promotion across Dev, UAT,
Pre-Prod and Prod

Operations and reliability:

* Manage containers and Kubernetes platforms
* Set up monitoring, logging and alerting; lead incident response and
root-cause analysis




* Maintain backup, high availability and disaster recovery; run DR drills
* Manage cloud cost, access control and security posture
* Leadership
* Lead and mentor a DevOps team of at least 5–6 engineers; own the shift
roster and handover
* Work with development, QA, security and client teams on releases and
environments
* Maintain runbooks, architecture records and operational documentation
* Forward deployed engineering
* Embed with client teams, on site or remotely, and build, deploy and fix
directly in client environments
* Turn client problems into working pipelines, infrastructure and automation,
not just designs
* Own the outcome end to end, from first discovery through production and
handover

Area Requirement

* Experience 8–12 years, all in DevOps or IT infrastructure
* Team leadership (mandatory) Has led a DevOps or infrastructure team of at
least 5–6 members
* Forward deployed engineering Hands-on delivery embedded with client teams,
in client environments
* Migrations 2 end-to-end migrations delivered, covering both on-premise and
cloud – Valuable to have
* Cloud Hands-on with Azure/AWS or GCP
* On-premise Linux and Windows servers, virtualisation (VMware or Hyper-V),
networking, storage
* CI/CD GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or Jenkins; GitOps practices
* Infrastructure as Code Terraform; Ansible or equivalent
* Containers Docker, Kubernetes (AKS, EKS or on-premise), Helm
* Scripting Bash, PowerShell, Python
* Databases Migration and backup of SQL Server, PostgreSQL or similar
* Monitoring Azure Monitor, Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana or ELK
* Security DevSecOps tools (SonarQube, Trivy, OWASP ZAP), secrets management,
IAM

📌 Devops Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 JK Tech
📍 Bengaluru