Lead DevOps Engineer

NON NEGO SKILLS: gitlab grafanaredhat GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: The DevOps Lead defines and advances DevOps practices across the organization. This role leads the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud operations to ensure secure, scalable, and high-performing environments. The DevOps Lead provides technical direction, sets DevOps standards and tooling strategy, and mentors engineers to drive delivery excellence. The role works closely with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to align DevOps capabilities with business goals. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead the design and review of CI/CD architecture and infrastructure automation frameworks.Drive DevOps maturity initiatives to improve release velocity, reliability, and security.Evaluate and approve DevOps tooling, automation frameworks, and cloud strategies.Oversee the design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for cloud-based and microservices applications.Spearhead Infrastructure as Code implementation for automated and repeatable provisioning.Automate and orchestrate workloads across single or multi-cloud environments.Design resilient, highly available, and scalable deployment architectures.Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks for proactive issue detection.Lead incident resolution, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive improvements.Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines and promote DevSecOps practices.Ensure compliance with infrastructure, data protection, and operational security standards.Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and performance guidance to DevOps Engineers.Collaborate with development, QA, architecture, and operations teams to ensure seamless delivery.Translate business and application requirements into scalable DevOps solutions.Communicate technical risks, improvements, and performance metrics to stakeholders.Other job-related activities that may be assigned from time to time.