DevOps + Team Lead

DEVOPS TEAM LEAD

Skill Set

• Technical Leadership: Platform squad oversight; sprint task definition; infrastructure architectural decisions

• Containers & Orchestration: Docker; Kubernetes/AKS (RBAC, HPA/KEDA, PDB); Helm (chart authoring, library charts)

• IaC: Terraform (Azure — AKS, PostgreSQL, Service Bus, Key Vault, APIM); Atlantis/Terraform Cloud

• CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions; ArgoCD/Flux; Trivy, Checkov, OWASP dep-check

• Cloud & Observability: Azure AKS/Service Bus/Monitor; Prometheus + Grafana; OpenTelemetry; ELK/OpenSearch

• Messaging & Security: Kafka; RabbitMQ; Azure Key Vault / HashiCorp Vault; mTLS; Trivy/Snyk; FCA/PCI-DSS

• Scripting: Python, Bash, Groovy — pipelines, runbooks, automated incident response

• People: Mentoring/line management of 3–6 DevOps engineers; 1:1s, onboarding, performance reviews

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps/platform squad; own Definition of Done/Ready; track velocity and flag risks.

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines; implement blue/green, canary, and feature-flag progressive delivery.

• Manage AKS clusters: node pool sizing, upgrades, namespace isolation, network policies, cost optimisation.

• Author and maintain Terraform modules for all Azure infrastructure; enforce IaC review and state lock.