DevOps Lead

We're looking for an experienced DevOps Lead, reporting directly to the CTO, to own our cloud and delivery infrastructure end-to-end — from strategy and architecture to hands-on execution. You'll lead a team of DevOps engineers serving multiple product groups, and shape how the organization builds, ships, and operates software: from CI/CD and Kubernetes to observability, security, cost, and developer experience.

This is a role for someone who wants real ownership: you'll set the technical direction, mentor the team, and partner directly with engineering leadership on modernizing our platform — including how AI-assisted and agentic development practices reshape the delivery pipeline.

What You'll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow the DevOps team; own professional development and delivery quality.
• Define and execute the infrastructure and DevOps roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership.
• Design, deploy, and operate cloud infrastructure on Azure (AKS, networking, identity, App Services).
• Own Kubernetes platform engineering: cluster lifecycle, scaling, and workload reliability.
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines and golden paths that make the right way the easy way for development teams (.NET, Python, Angular, Node.js).
• Drive infrastructure-as-code adoption and standards (Terraform / Bicep).
• Own observability and incident management: monitoring, alerting, SLOs, post-incident reviews, and continuous reliability improvement.
• Embed security into the delivery pipeline (DevSecOps): scanning, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
• Lead the modernization of legacy infrastructure and workloads toward cloud-native platforms.
• Track and optimize cloud spend (FinOps) and vendor relationships.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years in DevOps / SRE / platform engineering roles, including 3+ years leading a team.
• Deep hands-on experience with cloud services in production (preferably Azure).
• Strong Kubernetes administration and operations experience at scale.
• Proven track record building and owning CI/CD platforms (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Solid infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or equivalent).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across teams — you can translate between engineering detail and organizational strategy.
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms (Dynatrace, Coralogix, Grafana, or similar).

Nice to Have

• GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Familiarity with microservices architectures and event-driven systems.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tooling and workflows.