DevOps Platform Lead

Role Summary

The DevOps / Platform Lead is a strategic hands-on role responsible for leading the design implementation and evolution of enterprise cloud infrastructure and developer platforms. The role bridges development and operations driving the adoption of cloud-native technologies continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

You will lead a high-performing team of DevOps and Platform engineers foster a culture of automation and collaborate closely with Software Engineering Security and Product teams to ensure platforms are scalable secure resilient and optimized for developer velocity.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & People Management

• Lead mentor and inspire a team of DevOps and Platform engineers fostering a culture of continuous learning collaboration and accountability.
• Manage resource allocation project timelines sprint planning and team performance evaluations.
• Define career paths establish clear objectives and key results (OKRs) and conduct regular one-on-one meetings to support team members professional growth.

Platform Architecture & Strategy

• Define the long-term vision and roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to reduce cognitive load on engineering teams and accelerate time to market.
• Architect scalable highly available and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure using best practices in microservices and containerization.
• Lead the migration from legacy infrastructure to modern cloud-native architectures.

CI/CD & Automation Engineering

• Standardize optimize and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines across all environments to support safe repeatable and frequent deployments.
• Enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as the foundational approach for environment provisioning and configuration management.
• Eliminate manual interventions by automating routine operational tasks and building self-service tools for developers.

Site Reliability & Observability

• Own the availability performance and monitoring of production environments establishing and tracking critical service-level indicators (SLIs) service-level objectives (SLOs) and service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Implement comprehensive observability frameworks including centralized logging metrics collection distributed tracing and proactive Needs hiring manager validation: the source wording ends with proactive averting.
• Lead incident response management conduct blameless post-mortems and ensure root causes are addressed to prevent recurrence.

DevSecOps & Compliance

• Partner with the Security team to integrate automated security scanningincluding static application security testing (SAST) dynamic application security testing (DAST) dependency scanning and container vulnerability assessmentsdirectly into CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage and enforce identity and access management (IAM) policies secrets management and network security controls using the principle of least privilege.
• Ensure the platform complies with relevant industry standards and regulations including ISO 27001 SOC 2 GDPR and HIPAA.
• Design implement and audit compliance controls across all cloud environments to ensure adherence to relevant industry standards and regulations.
• Lead the engineering team through internal and external compliance audits ensuring documentation system logs and architecture diagrams are accurate and up to date.
• Enforce corporate governance policies data retention practices and disaster recovery (DR) compliance protocols.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

• Monitor analyze and optimize cloud infrastructure spending across all environments without compromising performance or reliability.
• Implement auto-scaling policies right-sizing strategies and data-retention lifecycle management to eliminate waste.
• Provide regular financial reporting and forecasts on cloud resource consumption to executive leadership.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary liaison between the platform engineering team and key internal business units including Product Management Software Engineering Leads Quality Assurance and Executive Leadership.
• Gather requirements and feedback from internal development teams treating developers as internal customers to continuously improve the platform experience and developer velocity.
• Clearly communicate technical roadmaps infrastructure risks system availability reports and the business value of DevOps initiatives to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 810 years of experience in DevOps Cloud Engineering or Systems Architecture.
• At least 3 years of experience in a managerial or team lead capacity directly managing engineering teams.
• Proven experience designing and managing production infrastructure at scale on major cloud providers including AWS Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong background managing high-traffic 24/7 production environments with a focus on zero-downtime deployments.

Preferred Certifications and Knowledge

• Cloud Architecture: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• DevOps / Platform: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.
• Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• Methodologies: Agile/Scrum certifications such as CSM or PMI-ACP and knowledge of the ITIL framework.