Azure DevOps Team Lead

Job description

We are seeking an Azure DevOps Team Lead to guide our SRE team, collaborating with L2 and cross-functional teams to ensure production stability and drive improvements in DORA metrics.

Responsibilities

- Lead the design, implementation and governance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins across multiple teams

- Drive infrastructure and configuration automation with Ansible, ensuring reusable, standardized and secure automation practices

- Provide technical leadership and escalation support for complex Linux and Windows-hosted application platform issues in build and runtime environments

- Define and enforce DevOps standards, best practices and guardrails in collaboration with development, QA and security teams

- Oversee pipeline performance, reliability and scalability, proactively identifying risks and improvement opportunities

- Guide and review Azure and AKS-based deployments, ensuring alignment with organizational architecture and security standards

- Own release orchestration across environments, including planning, execution, approvals and post-release stabilization

- Mentor, coach and upskill junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design reviews and knowledge sharing

- Act as the primary technical point of contact for DevOps-related initiatives and cross-team dependencies

- Communicate clearly with stakeholders across engineering, operations and management

Requirements

- 5+ years of working experience in DevOps, SRE or related roles

- Expertise in Linux and Windows Server administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning

- Proficiency in managing services, automation and scripting on Linux and Windows-based systems

- Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD ownership and release orchestration

- Skills in designing and managing build and release pipelines with Azure DevOps and Jenkins

- Competency in YAML pipelines, templates, variables, approvals and integration with repositories and deployment targets

- Experience in designing and maintaining Jenkins pipelines, shared libraries and agent management

- Expertise in Ansible for playbook design, automation of deployments and system configuration

- Capability to integrate Ansible with CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot playbook failures

- Background in Microsoft Azure services, supporting cloud infrastructure through automated CI/CD pipelines

- Understanding of security and governance basics in Azure

- Familiarity with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Kubernetes concepts for CI/CD-driven deployments

- Strong analytical skills

- Upper-Intermediate English language proficiency (B2)