Lead DevOps Engineer

• Job Title: DevOps Lead

• Location: Gurgaon ( In office) Experience: 8+ years

• Type: Full-time Job Summary: We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic DevOps Lead to drive the development and execution of our DevOps roadmap and manage critical production environments. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in modern DevOps toolsets, cloud infrastructure (with a focus on Azure), containerization, microservices, and high-availability systems architecture.

• Key Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the overall DevOps strategy, including tooling, infrastructure automation, and deployment pipelines.

• Lead and mentor a DevOps team, ensuring best practices and continuous improvement.

• Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines for scalable microservices-based applications.

• Design and manage multi-site, high-traffic, high-availability, and high-performance infrastructure.

• Own the production environment ensuring 24/7 uptime, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.

• Perform capacity planning, monitoring, and performance tuning to handle concurrent users and peak loads efficiently.

• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) and automate provisioning across cloud environments.

• Managing Applications developed in Node.js, Python, Machine Learning and AI. Experience with LLMs will be a big plus.

• Collaborate with software architects to ensure systems are designed for scalability and fault tolerance.

• Establish DevSecOps practices for integrating security and compliance into the delivery process.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of DevOps experience with a proven track record in strategy, execution, and leadership.

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.

• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Deep understanding of Microservices architecture and deployment best practices.

• Expertise with major cloud providers, particularly: o Microsoft Azure (strongly preferred) o AWS o GCP

• Experience with Azure PaaS services, AKS, App Services, Azure Monitor, and Azure Functions.

• Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Pulumi, or ARM templates.

• Proficient in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).

• Experience managing production systems with high traffic and high concurrency.

• Strong knowledge of load balancing, CDN, caching strategies, observability, and incident response.

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as:

• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, App Insights, Splunk, Loki. • Strong background in security and compliance, including:

• SIEM tools: Azure Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar

• Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS): Snort, Suricata, OSSEC, AWS GuardDuty, Azure Defender

• Vulnerability Scanning and Management: Nessus, Qualys, OpenVAS

• Experience implementing firewalls, network policies, RBAC, IAM, encryption, and secure DevOps pipelines (DevSecOps) • Familiarity with compliance frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC2, PCI-DSS, GDPR

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable, resilient infrastructure for global applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-400, AZ-305, AZ-104)

• Exposure to SRE practices and tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) • Familiarity with serverless, service mesh, and event-driven architecture