Associate Director DevOps & IT
BangaloreIndia
Hybrid
About the Role:
We are looking for a Associate Director DevOps & IT for one of our clients to drive efficiency innovation and continuous improvement of our DevOps practices and IT services. This role will be pivotal in driving scalability security and performance across our cloud environments and internal systems. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers IT administrators and infrastructure specialists and play a key role in cross-functional initiatives to optimize development workflows and ensure business continuity.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and evolve CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code (IaC) observability and automation strategies.
Define and implement DevOps best practices across development testing deployment and monitoring.
Partner with engineering teams to optimize build and release processes for speed reliability and security.
Manage Azure cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability availability and cost efficiency.
Define Change & Release Management to improve team capability and deploy work with repeatable success.
Take responsibility for the architecture and technical leadership of the entire DevOps infrastructure
Oversee the corporate IT strategy including networks device management user support and security.
Ensure compliance with IT policies including data privacy regulations and cybersecurity frameworks.
Lead selection implementation and support of business-critical IT systems and SaaS tools.
Develop and maintain a technology roadmap aligned with organizational goals.
Evaluate and implement new tools and technologies to improve reliability automation and team efficiency.
Manage vendor relationships and technology budgets.
Build and lead a high-performing team providing mentorship guidance and professional
development.
Foster a culture of ownership continuous improvement and collaboration across DevOps and IT.
Required Qualifications:
10 years of progressive experience in DevOps infrastructure or IT leadership roles.
Hands-on experience in DevOps IT or related technical roles.
Proven expertise in designing building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
Experience in PowerShell for automation and process optimization.
Strong experience with SVN for source control including repository management branching and merging.
Strong experience with modern DevOps tools (e.g. Jenkins AzureDevops Azure Pipelines Terraform Ansible Kubernetes).
Expertise in Azure cloud architecture.
Thorough knowledge of developing cross platform applications - Web Mobile Web both.
Solid understanding of IT systems cybersecurity networking and endpoint management.
Proven leadership and project management skills.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
Experience in a regulated industry (e.g. fintech healthcare) with compliance requirements.
.Experience scaling systems and teams in a high-growth environment.
High adaptability and ability to thrive in fast-paced dynamic environments
Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
High ownership and accountability.
Familiarity with static code analysis tools like Veracode (preferred but not mandatory).