DevOps Lead
Summary
Leads and mentors a DevOps team at an educational technology organization, owning Azure cloud infrastructure end to end — Kubernetes (AKS), CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/Bicep infrastructure-as-code, observability, DevSecOps, and FinOps — while partnering with engineering leadership on platform modernization.
We're looking for an experienced DevOps Lead, reporting directly to the CTO, to own our cloud and delivery infrastructure end-to-end — from strategy and architecture to hands-on execution. You'll lead a team of DevOps engineers serving multiple product groups, and shape how the organization builds, ships, and operates software: from CI/CD and Kubernetes to observability, security, cost, and developer experience.
This is a role for someone who wants real ownership: you'll set the technical direction, mentor the team, and partner directly with engineering leadership on modernizing our platform — including how AI-assisted and agentic development practices reshape the delivery pipeline.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and grow the DevOps team; own professional development and delivery quality.
- Define and execute the infrastructure and DevOps roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership.
- Design, deploy, and operate cloud infrastructure on Azure (AKS, networking, identity, App Services).
- Own Kubernetes platform engineering: cluster lifecycle, scaling, and workload reliability.
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines and golden paths that make the right way the easy way for development teams (.NET, Python, Angular, Node.js).
- Drive infrastructure-as-code adoption and standards (Terraform / Bicep).
- Own observability and incident management: monitoring, alerting, SLOs, post-incident reviews, and continuous reliability improvement.
- Embed security into the delivery pipeline (DevSecOps): scanning, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
- Lead the modernization of legacy infrastructure and workloads toward cloud-native platforms.
- Track and optimize cloud spend (FinOps) and vendor relationships.
Requirements
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years in DevOps / SRE / platform engineering roles, including 3+ years leading a team.
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud services in production (preferably Azure).
- Strong Kubernetes administration and operations experience at scale.
- Proven track record building and owning CI/CD platforms (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Solid infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or equivalent).
- Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent).
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across teams — you can translate between engineering detail and organizational strategy.
- Hands-on experience with observability platforms (Dynatrace, Coralogix, Grafana, or similar).
Nice to Have
- GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux).
- Familiarity with microservices architectures and event-driven systems.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tooling and workflows.
Skills
- Agentic AI
- AI
- AKS
- Angular
- Argo CD
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- Bash
- Bicep
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Native
- Developer Experience
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- .NET
- Dynatrace
- Event Driven Architecture
- FinOps
- Flux
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitOps
- Grafana
- Infrastructure as Code
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- Networking
- Node.js
- Observability
- PowerShell
- Python
- Secrets Management
- Terraform