DevOps Team Lead Engineer | Azure | Kubernetes | IaC
We're hiring 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
1. Lead and mentor a global DevOps team while staying hands-on
2. Own CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment workflows
3. Design and operate Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
4. Manage Kubernetes (AKS) environments and service mesh architecture
5. Drive automation, reliability, and production readiness
6. Champion DevOps best practices across engineering teams
7. Support live systems, incident response, and continuous improvement
What We're Looking For
8. 5+ years in DevOps / SRE roles within cloud-native or SaaS environments
9. 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role
10. Strong Azure experience
11. Hands-on with:Terraform (and Terragrunt)Kubernetes (AKS), HelmCI/CD (Azure DevOps)GitOps (ArgoCD)Bash scripting (Python or Go a plus)
12. Experience with Zero Trust security, RBAC, and PIM
13. Comfortable owning production systems and on-call responsibilities
14. Strong communicator and natural technical leader
Nice to Have
15. Kafka or event-driven systems
16. Microservices and distributed systems experience
17. OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
18. CosmosDB performance tuning
19. Azure-native services (API Management, Logic Apps)
Why Apply?
20. High-impact leadership role with real technical ownership
21. Influence DevOps strategy and platform reliability
22. Work on scalable, security-focused cloud systems
23. Collaborative, engineering-first environment
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