Role Overview
The DevOps Lead is responsible for establishing, operating, and continuously improving the cloud platform, deployment pipelines, operational reliability, and engineering practices for a cloud-native digital supply chain platform on AWS supporting Oil & Gas operations.
Beyond traditional DevOps responsibilities, this role is expected to provide architectural guidance and actively contribute to the evolution and re-architecture of the platform as business, performance, scalability, security, and integration requirements evolve. The individual will serve as a key technical partner to the Technical Lead and Product Team, driving modernization initiatives, platform optimization, cloud governance, and operational excellence.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
- AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent) preferred.
- Kubernetes and/or container platform certifications preferred.
- DevOps, CI/CD, or Infrastructure-as-Code certifications are advantageous.
Overall Experience
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud environments.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud-native applications in production environments.
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.
- Experience contributing to solution architecture and cloud modernization initiatives.
- Experience in Supply Chain, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, or other industrial sectors preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployment and platform services.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices for repeatable and scalable deployments.
- Ensure platform reliability, availability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Monitor platform performance and proactively address operational risks and bottlenecks.
- Lead cloud environment provisioning, configuration management, and release automation.
- Collaborate with development teams to embed DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Define and enforce operational standards, deployment controls, and cloud governance practices.
- Manage platform observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
- Support production deployments, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and service restoration activities.
- Optimize cloud resource utilization and drive FinOps best practices to manage cloud costs.
- Work closely with Technical Leads, SAP teams, and integration teams to support platform integrations and deployments.
- Architecture & Platform Evolution Responsibilities
- Assess current platform architecture and identify opportunities for modernization and optimization.
- Recommend and lead re-architecture initiatives based on scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and business needs.
- Contribute to architecture reviews and technical design discussions.
- Define reference architectures, deployment patterns, and cloud engineering standards.
- Support migration from legacy implementation patterns to cloud-native architectures where required.
- Provide recommendations on microservices adoption, container orchestration, event-driven architectures, and platform scalability strategies.
- Partner with enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment with organizational standards and long-term technology roadmaps.
Mandatory Skills
- Strong AWS cloud platform expertise.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation).
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
- Strong Kubernetes and containerization experience.
- Experience in cloud architecture, solution design, and system modernization.
- Ability to assess application architecture and recommend re-engineering or re-architecture approaches.
- Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps and security automation practices.
- Expertise in monitoring, observability, and production operations.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident management capabilities.
- Experience managing highly available and mission-critical systems.
- Ability to collaborate with architects, developers, SAP teams, and business stakeholders.
- Strong documentation, communication, and leadership skills.
Tools / Software
- Cloud & Architecture - AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch), AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, AWS IAM, Well-Architected Framework
- Infrastructure & Automation - Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm, Packer
- Container & Orchestration - Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, OpenShift
- CI/CD & DevSecOps - GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy
- Monitoring & Observability - CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Dynatrace
- Enterprise & Integration - SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, Kafka, REST APIs, EventBridge
- Collaboration - Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint
