GRZ - Lead DevOps Engineer

Hiring Lead DevOps Engineer for a Reputed/MNC company located at Chandigarh

Requirements

Job Responsibilities

• Define, drive, and govern the enterprise DevOps roadmap and maturity model.
• Establish DevSecOps practices aligned with compliance, security, and audit requirements.
• Standardize CI/CD pipelines, release governance, environment strategy, and automation frameworks across business units.
• Lead enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Architect scalable and enterprise-grade CI/CD pipeline ecosystems using Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
• Define branching strategies, release workflows, artifact management, and environment promotion models.
• Implement automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, and compliance validation.
• Optimize pipeline performance, reusability, governance, and automation at scale.
• Design resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized hybrid cloud architectures with Azure as the primary cloud platform.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM Templates, CloudFormation) and configuration management.
• Lead containerization and orchestration initiatives using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, observability, and platform reliability.
• Establish DevOps frameworks for enterprise COTS platforms including Salesforce, Temenos, IBM Enterprise Suites, Snowflake, and similar applications.
• Design CI/CD automation, versioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines for packaged applications.
• Integrate COTS platforms with enterprise DevSecOps toolchains.
• Lead, mentor, and scale DevOps and Platform Engineering teams.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Application Development teams.
• Present technical strategy, solution architecture, and transformation roadmaps to executive stakeholders.
• Drive organization-wide adoption of automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and continuous improvement practices.
• Define and monitor KPIs, SLAs, and operational metrics to improve DevOps effectiveness.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of overall IT experience with at least 7+ years in DevOps leadership roles.
• Strong expertise in Azure DevOps and Jenkins pipeline architecture, governance, and enterprise-scale CI/CD implementation.
• Proven experience leading multi-cloud and hybrid cloud transformation initiatives, with Azure as a primary cloud platform.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM Templates, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Strong experience with Git, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
• Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and container orchestration technologies.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, and Dynatrace.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices including SAST, DAST, secrets management, and container security.
• Experience with artifact repositories such as Nexus and Artifactory.
• Proven experience implementing DevOps for enterprise COTS platforms such as Salesforce, Temenos, IBM Enterprise Suites, and Snowflake.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, and Python.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.