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Position: Lead DevOps Engineer
We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive cloud infrastructure strategy, platform engineering, and large-scale migration programs across Azure and AWS environments. This role leads a team of senior engineers, sets technical direction for infrastructure automation, and partners with application teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and governed cloud platforms.
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Team Management
● Lead and mentor a team of senior and mid-level DevOps engineers across cloud migration and platform engineering workstreams.
● Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure automation, CI/CD maturity, and platform engineering practices.
● Conduct architecture and design reviews; set engineering standards, coding conventions, and IaC patterns.
● Drive cross-functional collaboration with application, security, and product teams.
● Serve as the escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and migration blockers.
Cloud Migration (Azure & AWS)
● Plan, architect, and oversee end-to-end cloud migrations across Azure and AWS environments.
● Lead Tenant-to-Tenant migrations covering Azure AD, subscriptions, and workloads at enterprise scale.
● Define migration playbooks for lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecture patterns.
● Establish quality gates, rollback procedures, and post-migration stabilization frameworks.
● Optimize and standardize multi-cloud environments for cost, performance, and resilience.
Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
● Architect and govern enterprise-wide Terraform module libraries and IaC standards.
● Lead Terraform Enterprise (TFE) adoption, workspace governance, and platform migrations.
● Drive consistency in state management, module versioning, and pipeline integration.
● Review and approve IaC changes for security, compliance, and architectural alignment.
Platform Engineering & Governance
● Define platform engineering strategy: landing zones, multi-subscription/account architectures, and self-service provisioning.
● Implement guardrails and governance models using Azure Policy and AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs).
● Enforce security policies covering RBAC, IAM, and network controls.
● Enable platform teams to build and consume self-service infrastructure capabilities.
DevOps & CI/CD
● Design and govern CI/CD pipeline standards for application and infrastructure delivery.
● Champion GitOps principles for environment pipelines and deployment automation.
● Establish monitoring, logging, and reliability practices across cloud workloads.
● Identify and eliminate toil through automation and platform improvements.
Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery
● Coordinate with senior leadership, application owners, and migration program managers on delivery timelines and risks.
● Produce and present architecture decisions, migration status updates, and platform roadmaps.
● Partner with onshore teams and client stakeholders across global time zones.
Preferred Skills:
● Terraform Enterprise (TFE) administration and migration initiatives.
● Multi-tenant architecture transformations at enterprise scale.
● Cloud FinOps and cost optimization practices.
● Experience with internal developer platforms such as Coder or Backstage.
● Kubernetes platform engineering: EKS, AKS, namespace governance, and policy enforcement.
● AWS or Azure professional-level certifications.