Lead DevOps

Project description

Project Goal: Ongoing development and optimization of a large-scale eCommerce platform for a major US retail company serving millions of omnichannel customers weekly.

The cloud migration phase has been completed. The current focus is on:

• CI/CD process optimization and standardization
• Infrastructure improvement and operational maturity
• Security hardening and compliance
• Performance, reliability and scalability improvements
• Continuous modernization of the cloud-native platform

  Responsibilities

  • The role focuses on improving engineering efficiency, infrastructure reliability, and security posture across a cloud-native microservices ecosystem.

  Key Responsibilities:

  • Improve and standardize CI/CD pipelines across teams
  • Optimize build, test, and deployment processes
  • Enhance Infrastructure as Code practices
  • Improve observability, reliability, and scalability of the platform
  • Drive security improvements across infrastructure and delivery pipelines
  • Implement DevSecOps best practices
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve operational processes
  • Participate in architectural decision-making and continuous platform evolution
  • Contribute to pre-sales and technical consulting activities when required
  
  

  SKILLS

  Must have

  • Core Technical Competencies:
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
  • Strong Kubernetes experience (production environments)
  • CI/CD pipeline design and optimization
  • Infrastructure as Code: o Terraform or Azure Bicep
  • Containers: o Docker or Podman
  • Scripting: o Python and/or Bash o PowerShell
  • Experience with security best practices in cloud-native environments

  Leadership & Communication:

• Experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Strong client-facing communication skills
• Ability to drive cross-team improvements

Nice to have

• DevSecOps tooling (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning) • Experience improving SDLC governance • CI/CD platforms: o GitLab CI o TeamCity o Azure DevOps o GitHub Actions o ArgoCD or Flux • Configuration Management: o Salt o Puppet o Chef • Programming: o Python o Golang