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Hiring a Senior DevOps Leader for a High-Scale, Multi-Cloud Environment

Finding the right Senior DevOps Leader for your organization, especially one with over 15 years of experience and a background in high-scale operations leveraging GitLab, Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS, is a critical undertaking. This role demands a unique blend of deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and proven leadership capabilities. Heres a comprehensive guide to what you should be looking for:

Key Responsibilities to Expect:

A Senior DevOps Leader in this context will be responsible for more than just managing infrastructure; they will be a strategic partner driving efficiency, innovation, and reliability across the organization.

• Strategic Leadership & Vision:

Defining and executing a long-term DevOps strategy aligned with business objectives, particularly for high-scale and resilient systems.

Driving the adoption of DevOps best practices, tools, and culture across engineering and operations teams.

Leading architectural decisions for CI/CD, containerization, cloud infrastructure, and automation, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.

Evaluating and integrating new and emerging technologies (e.g., AI in DevOps, advanced monitoring solutions) to enhance operational efficiency and system performance.

• Team Leadership & Development:

Building, mentoring, and leading a high-performing team of DevOps engineers.

Fostering a collaborative, innovative, and continuous improvement culture within the DevOps team and its interactions with other departments.

Managing resource allocation, project prioritization, and performance management for the DevOps team.

• Technical Oversight & Execution:

Overseeing the design, implementation, and management of robust CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI.

Leading the strategy and governance for Kubernetes deployments at scale, including cluster management, networking, security, and resource optimization across GCP (GKE) and AWS (EKS).

Architecting and managing multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS), focusing on high availability, disaster recovery, security, and cost optimization.

Championing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

Implementing and refining comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies (e.g., using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Google Cloud's operations suite) to ensure system health and proactive issue resolution.

Driving automation initiatives across all stages of the software development lifecycle.

• Collaboration & Communication:

Working closely with development, operations, security, and product teams to streamline workflows and ensure seamless delivery of software.

Communicating effectively with executive leadership, stakeholders, and technical teams regarding DevOps strategy, project status, risks, and performance metrics.

Championing and enforcing security best practices (DevSecOps) throughout the development lifecycle.

• Operational Excellence & Governance:

Establishing and tracking key DevOps metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recovery (MTTR), change failure rate).

Ensuring compliance with industry standards and internal policies.

Managing budgets and vendor relationships related to DevOps tools and cloud services.

Essential Technical Leadership Skills:

Beyond hands-on proficiency, a leader must demonstrate strategic application and governance of these technologies.

• GitLab:

• Kubernetes (K8s):

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Amazon Web Services (AWS):

• General DevOps & SRE Principles:

Why Netcore?

Being first is in our nature. Netcore Cloud is the first and leading

Netcores Engineering team focuses on adoption, scalability, complex challenges, and fastest processing. We use versatile tech stacks like

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Headquartered in Mumbai, we have a global footprint across

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What’s in it for You?

• Immense growth and continuous learning.

• Solve complex engineering problems at scale.

• Work with top industry talent and global brands.

• An open, entrepreneurial culture that values innovation.