Lead DevOps

Job description

Project description

Project Goal:

Ongoing development and optimization of a large-scale eCommerce platform for a major US retail company serving millions of omnichannel customers weekly.

The cloud migration phase has been completed. The current focus is on:

- CI/CD process optimization and standardization

- Infrastructure improvement and operational maturity

- Security hardening and compliance

- Performance, reliability and scalability improvements

- Continuous modernization of the cloud-native platform

Responsibilities

- The role focuses on improving engineering efficiency, infrastructure reliability, and security posture across a cloud-native microservices ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

- Improve and standardize CI/CD pipelines across teams

- Optimize build, test, and deployment processes

- Enhance Infrastructure as Code practices

- Improve observability, reliability, and scalability of the platform

- Drive security improvements across infrastructure and delivery pipelines

- Implement DevSecOps best practices

- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve operational processes

- Participate in architectural decision-making and continuous platform evolution

- Contribute to pre-sales and technical consulting activities when required

SKILLS

Must have

- Core Technical Competencies:

- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure

- Strong Kubernetes experience (production environments)

- CI/CD pipeline design and optimization

- Infrastructure as Code:

o Terraform or Azure Bicep

- Containers:

o Docker or Podman

- Scripting:

o Python and/or Bash

o PowerShell

- Experience with security best practices in cloud-native environments

Leadership & Communication:

- Experience leading or mentoring engineers

- Strong client-facing communication skills

- Ability to drive cross-team improvements

Nice to have

• DevSecOps tooling (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning)

• Experience improving SDLC governance

• CI/CD platforms:

o GitLab CI

o TeamCity

o Azure DevOps

o GitHub Actions

o ArgoCD or Flux

• Configuration Management:

o Salt

o Puppet

o Chef

• Programming:

o Python

o Golang