Role Summary

We are looking for a DevOps Lead to own our DevOps and DevSecOps strategy across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will set the technical direction for infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and security. You will lead a team of engineers and make sure our platforms are scalable, resilient, secure, and compliant.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership and Strategy

Define and own the DevOps, DevSecOps, and platform engineering roadmap.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps/SRE engineers, setting standards for code review, on-call, and incident management.
Partner with engineering, security, product, and leadership on architecture, capacity planning, and cost optimization (FinOps).
Own vendor and tooling decisions, budgets, and build-vs-buy evaluations.

Infrastructure and Automation

Architect and govern scalable CI/CD pipelines for on-prem, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), and hybrid environments.
Drive Infrastructure-as-Code adoption (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi) with reusable modules, state management, and drift detection.
Lead container orchestration strategy with Docker and Kubernetes, including multi-cluster and multi-region setups.
Design and operate hybrid workloads using orchestrators such as Anthos or Azure Arc.

DevSecOps and Security

Embed security into the SDLC with SAST, DAST, SCA, container and IaC scanning, secrets management, and SBOM/supply-chain security (SLSA, image signing).
Implement Zero Trust architecture, IAM least-privilege, encryption (at rest and in transit), key management, and network segmentation.
Enforce policy-as-code using OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or HashiCorp Sentinel.
Run risk assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and patch governance with defined remediation SLAs.
Own compliance readiness and audits for ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and similar frameworks.

Reliability and Observability

Establish SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and an observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning, including regular failover testing with defined RTO/RPO.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
15+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 4 years leading teams or platforms.
Deep expertise across on-prem infrastructure and at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Expert scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
Production experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, CircleCI) and GitOps practices.
Strong command of networking, firewalls, VPNs, DNS, and load balancing.
Proven DevSecOps track record: Zero Trust, IAM, PKI, encryption, auditing, and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA).
Experience designing large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
Strong stakeholder communication, including the ability to present risk and strategy to senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

Certifications: CKA/CKS, AWS DevOps Professional, AWS/Azure Security Specialty, CISSP, CCSP.
Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), eBPF-based security tooling, and runtime protection (Falco).
Experience with security tooling such as Vault, Trivy, Snyk, SonarQube, and Wiz/Prisma Cloud.
Experience leading cloud migrations or on-prem to hybrid transformations.
Exposure to FinOps and platform-as-a-product practices.

Personal Attributes

Strategic thinker who stays hands-on when needed.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills under pressure.
Clear communicator who builds trust across engineering and security teams.
Passion for automation, resilience, and secure-by-design systems.

What We Offer

A modern cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure stack.
Real ownership and influence on platform and security strategy.
Health benefits, flexible work options, and the latest hardware.
A growth path toward Head of Platform, Director of Engineering (Infrastructure), or Principal Architect.

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