Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Role Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Drive the migration of an existing enterprise data platform from Azure to AWS.
• Analyze existing Azure environments and define the target AWS architecture and migration strategy.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code implementation using Terraform with reusable modules.
• Design and manage enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, applications, and data workloads.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment using Ansible.
• Design, administer, and support Windows Server environments, including automation, configuration, patching, hardening, and operational management.
• Architect, deploy, and manage production-grade Kubernetes/EKS clusters.
• Design and manage containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build reusable cloud platform capabilities for data engineering teams.
• Define AWS networking, IAM, security, governance, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Develop automation scripts and platform tooling using Python.
• Implement monitoring and observability solutions across cloud infrastructure.
• Lead production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and establish engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with Architects, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Security teams, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain architecture documentation, migration playbooks, operational runbooks, and platform standards.

Must-Have Skills & Qualifications

AWS Cloud

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including:
  • EC2
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • S3
  • RDS
  • EKS
  • Lambda
  • CloudWatch
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • EventBridge
  • Glue

Kubernetes

• Expert-level Kubernetes administration.
• Strong production experience with Amazon EKS.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, RBAC, and troubleshooting.

Infrastructure as Code

• Advanced Terraform.
• Reusable modules.
• State management.
• Multi-environment deployments.

Configuration Management (Mandatory)

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible.
• Playbooks.
• Roles.
• Inventory management.
• Configuration automation.
• Server provisioning.
• Application deployment automation.

Windows Server Administration (Mandatory)

• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server Administration.
• Active Directory fundamentals.
• IIS.
• PowerShell.
• Windows Server configuration.
• Patching.
• Security hardening.
• Performance tuning.
• Troubleshooting.

Containers

• Docker.
• Kubernetes.
• Amazon EKS.

CI/CD

• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI

Programming

• Strong Python scripting.
• Bash.
• PowerShell.

Cloud Migration

• Strong experience leading Azure-to-AWS migration projects.
• Infrastructure migration.
• Networking migration.
• Security migration.
• CI/CD migration.
• Platform migration.

DevOps

• Git.
• Automation.
• Release Management.
• Infrastructure Automation.
• Monitoring.
• Logging.

Database

• PostgreSQL.
• Amazon RDS.
• SQL.

Data Platform

• Data Lakes.
• Data Pipelines.
• Distributed Systems.
• Enterprise Data Platforms.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead cloud platform architecture decisions.
• Own AWS platform engineering strategy.
• Review infrastructure designs and Terraform code.
• Mentor and coach DevOps engineers.
• Define DevOps standards and best practices.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Security teams.
• Lead cloud migration planning and execution.
• Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Preferred Skills

• AWS Glue
• Athena
• Lake Formation
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Dynatrace
• Vault
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Kafka
• Flink
• Apache Iceberg
• Apache Hudi
• Agile / Kanban
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Experience

• 8–10 years of DevOps / Platform Engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
• 3+ years of production Kubernetes/EKS experience.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Windows Server Administration.
• Experience leading Azure-to-AWS migration initiatives.
• Experience designing enterprise cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and mentor engineers.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, and operating systems.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.