Lead DevOps Engineer/Manager

NAVA Software solutions is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer/Manager

Details:

Lead DevOps Engineer/Manager
Location: Spring TX - Hybrid
Duration: 6-12 months
Experience Level: 10 Years DevOps (Required)
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field

Overview

Our client-a large, mature enterprise organization-is seeking a highly experienced Team Lead / DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of leading transformation and driving change across complex technology environments. This individual must demonstrate strong leadership, technical depth, and the ability to influence and modernize DevOps practices at scale.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who takes ownership, drives strategy, and mentors teams while working with modern CI/CD, cloud, and observability technologies.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Change Management

• Lead and mentor a DevOps engineering team, promoting best practices and continuous improvement.
• Drive DevOps transformation initiatives across a large enterprise environment.
• Influence architecture, development, and operations teams to adopt modern DevOps practices.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for DevOps operations, stability, and automation initiatives.
• Champion a culture of ownership, transparency, automation, and operational excellence.

DevOps Engineering & Automation

• Oversee design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Drive infrastructure automation, configuration management, and IaC standards (Terraform, ARM/Bicep a plus).
• Architect, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure at enterprise scale.
• Implement and maintain best-in-class monitoring, logging, and observability practices using Datadog.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure high availability, performance, and security of cloud and on-prem workloads.
• Establish and enforce DevOps processes, operating standards, runbooks, and documentation.
• Collaborate closely with architecture, security, engineering, and product teams.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in development pipelines and operational workflows.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience in a large, mature enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams and driving organizational change.
• Expert-level experience with Azure cloud environments.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub / GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Datadog for monitoring, observability, alerting, and dashboards.
• Proven background in infrastructure automation (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, or similar).
• Strong knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes preferred).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SRE frameworks (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets).
• Experience working in hybrid cloud or complex legacy-to-cloud modernization environments.
• Prior experience as a DevOps Lead, DevOps Manager, or Technical Lead.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust principles and enterprise governance models.

Soft Skills & Leadership Traits

• Strong ownership mindset; proactive problem-solver.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and uplift team capability.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management.
• Comfortable leading in fast-moving, matrixed environments.
• Passion for continuous improvement, automation, and innovation.