We're recruiting for a
hands-on DevOps Team Lead Engineer
to lead cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational excellence for a modern, cloud-native SaaS platform.
This is a
player–coach role
— you'll remain deeply technical while mentoring and guiding a small, distributed DevOps team.
What You'll Do
* Lead and mentor a global DevOps team while staying hands-on
* Own CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment workflows
* Design and operate Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
* Manage Kubernetes (AKS) environments and service mesh architecture
* Drive automation, reliability, and production readiness
* Champion DevOps best practices across engineering teams
* Support live systems, incident response, and continuous improvement
What We're Looking For
* 5+ years in DevOps / SRE roles within cloud-native or SaaS environments
* 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role
* Strong Azure experience
* Hands-on with:
* Terraform (and Terragrunt)
* Kubernetes (AKS), Helm
* CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
* GitOps (ArgoCD)
* Bash scripting (Python or Go a plus)
* Experience with Zero Trust security, RBAC, and PIM
* Comfortable owning production systems and on-call responsibilities
* Strong communicator and natural technical leader
Nice to Have
* Kafka or event-driven systems
* Microservices and distributed systems experience
* OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
* CosmosDB performance tuning
* Azure-native services (API Management, Logic Apps)
Why Apply?
* High-impact leadership role with real technical ownership
* Influence DevOps strategy and platform reliability
* Work on scalable, security-focused cloud systems
* Collaborative, engineering-first environment