Team Lead DevOps

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team. This role involves leading, mentoring, and guiding a team of DevOps engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and implement DevOps strategies. You will oversee infrastructure management, design CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring and security measures, and optimize system performance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Team Leadership:

• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment focused on constant learning and improvement.

DevOps Strategy:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define DevOps strategies and roadmaps aligned with organizational goals.

Infrastructure Management:

• Oversee the design, deployment, and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure and on-premises systems.

CI/CD Pipeline:

• Design, implement, and maintain robust continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting:

• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to proactively identify and address system issues.
• Respond to incidents promptly, perform root cause analysis, and take corrective actions.

Security:

• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Implement security measures to safeguard applications and infrastructure from potential threats.

Performance Optimization:

• Analyze system performance and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Work with development teams to improve application performance and efficiency.

Collaboration:

• Foster effective communication and collaboration between development, operations, and quality assurance teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well within a team and across departments.

Technical Skills:

• Must have experience in OpenShift skills.
• Knowledge and experience in configuring Kafka clusters.
• Must have experience in working with Docker and Kubernetes for 2+ years.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Solid experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation) covering networking, storage, VMs, containers, RDS, and Managed Kubernetes services.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab) and version control systems.
• Proven experience configuring and working with logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack and Elastic APM, AWS CloudWatch which is a monitoring Platform or similar).
• Good understanding in setting up highly available, scalable infrastructure and services, covering networking and applications deployments.
• Experience in deploying, monitoring, and maintaining Databases, including high availability setups of: MySQL, MongoDB, both managed and unmanaged.
• Should have good experience in Agile concepts and methods, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Jira (Ticketing tool), Linux (Operating System).