DevOps Team Lead Engineer | Azure | Kubernetes | IaC
We’re hiring a hands-on DevOps Team Lead Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational excellence for a modern, cloud-native SaaS platform.
This is a player–coach role — you’ll remain deeply technical while mentoring and guiding a small, distributed DevOps team.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and mentor a global DevOps team while staying hands-on
- Own CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment workflows
- Design and operate Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
- Manage Kubernetes (AKS) environments and service mesh architecture
- Drive automation, reliability, and production readiness
- Champion DevOps best practices across engineering teams
- Support live systems, incident response, and continuous improvement
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years in DevOps / SRE roles within cloud-native or SaaS environments
- 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role
- Strong Azure experience
- Hands-on with:
- Terraform (and Terragrunt)
- Kubernetes (AKS), Helm
- CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
- GitOps (ArgoCD)
- Bash scripting (Python or Go a plus)
- Experience with Zero Trust security, RBAC, and PIM
- Comfortable owning production systems and on-call responsibilities
- Strong communicator and natural technical leader
Nice to Have
- Kafka or event-driven systems
- Microservices and distributed systems experience
- OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- CosmosDB performance tuning
- Azure-native services (API Management, Logic Apps)
Why Apply?
- High-impact leadership role with real technical ownership
- Influence DevOps strategy and platform reliability
- Work on scalable, security-focused cloud systems
- Collaborative, engineering-first environment
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