Lead DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

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.

Key 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.

Required Skills

• Cloud Platforms: Azure and AWS (both mandatory) — Advanced
• Migration Expertise: Tenant-to-Tenant, subscription, and workload migrations — Advanced
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, including Terraform Enterprise (TFE) — Advanced
• DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, Git, automation, GitOps — Advanced
• Platform Engineering: Landing zones, Azure Policy, AWS SCPs, governance models — Advanced
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS / AKS) — Proficient
• Scripting: Python and Bash — Proficient
• Monitoring: Logs, metrics, alerting (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor) — Proficient
• Leadership: Team lead or tech lead with 3+ direct reports — Required

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.

Leadership Expectations

This is a lead role. Beyond technical execution, the ideal candidate drives team performance, raises the engineering bar, and connects infrastructure decisions to business outcomes.

• Builds and develops high-performing engineering teams; invests in career growth of direct reports.
• Communicates complex technical tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Operates with a bias toward action: ships working solutions before perfect ones.
• Holds technical quality standards without creating blockers for delivery.
• Proactively surfaces risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.