Lead DevOps

Lead DevOps Engineer Role Overview We're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to own, architect, and scale our infrastructure and CI/CD landscape. You'll be the go-to person for pipeline design, Kubernetes operations, and infrastructure reliability — someone who's been in the trenches of production-grade systems and can guide a team while staying hands-on. Experience & Qualifications • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles. • Proven track record of designing and operating production-grade Kubernetes environments at scale. • Prior experience in a lead or senior individual contributor role mentoring engineers and driving DevOps best practices (good to have). Must-Have Skills CI/CD & Pipelines • Expert-level proficiency in building, optimizing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines from scratch. • Deep experience with tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD. • Strong understanding of pipeline security, artifact management, and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling). Operating Systems & Fundamentals • Deep understanding of Linux internals — processes, memory management, filesystems, networking, and IPC. • Solid grasp of OS-level performance tuning, troubleshooting, and kernel parameters. • Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automation and tooling. Kubernetes (Deep & Thorough) • Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production. • Deep knowledge of K8s architecture — control plane, kubelet, etcd, CNI, CSI, scheduler, and admission controllers. • Experience with Helm, Kustomize, Operators, CRDs, and policy management. • Strong understanding of workload lifecycle, resource management, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler), and RBAC. • Familiarity with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and ingress controllers. Good to Have • Experience working in on-premises environments — bare metal or virtualized infrastructure. • Understanding of on-prem Kubernetes setup — RKE2, K3s, or similar provisioning tools. • Knowledge of on-prem networking — VLANs, load balancing, DNS, firewall rules, and storage backends (Ceph, NFS, iSCSI). • Prior lead DevOps experience — driving technical decisions, roadmap planning, and mentoring junior engineers. What You'll Do • Architect, build, and maintain resilient CI/CD pipelines across multiple services and environments. • Own the reliability, scalability, and security of our Kubernetes clusters. • Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment velocity and infrastructure self-service. • Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent. • Establish observability standards — logging, monitoring, and tracing (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry). • Lead incident response and post-mortem culture; drive SLO/SLI adoption. • Evaluate and introduce new tools and practices to improve operational efficiency. • Mentor team members and set DevOps standards across the organization. Nice to Have • Experience with GPU workloads or AI/ML infrastructure. • Familiarity with container runtimes beyond containerd (CRI-O, etc.). • Exposure to GitOps workflows and progressive delivery tooling.