Team Lead DevOps

Team Lead DevOps

Job Description: DevOps Team Lead
Department: DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure
Experience: 5+ years in IT, with relevant DevOps and cloud engineering experience
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced and technically strong DevOps Team Lead to lead our DevOps team, manage AWS cloud infrastructure, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and ensure the availability, scalability, security, and performance of our applications.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with AWS services, containerization, infrastructure management, monitoring, logging, database administration, and automated deployment pipelines. The candidate will lead the DevOps team, establish best practices, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, and collaborate with development, QA, and application teams to deliver reliable software releases.
Key Responsibilities
1. Team Leadership and Collaboration
• Lead, mentor, and manage the DevOps engineering team.
• Plan and coordinate infrastructure, automation, and deployment activities.
• Establish DevOps standards, best practices, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and application teams.
• Conduct technical reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and incident reviews.
2. AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Manage AWS services, including:
Amazon ECS and Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon API Gateway
• Configure and maintain networking, IAM roles and policies, security groups, load balancing, and access controls.
• Implement cloud security, backup, disaster recovery, and cost-optimization strategies.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, and resource utilization.
3. Docker and Containerization
• Build, optimize, and maintain Docker images and Dockerfiles.
• Manage containerized applications and deployments using Amazon ECS.
• Optimize container resource utilization, image sizes, and deployment performance.
• Troubleshoot container failures, networking issues, and application startup problems.
4. CI/CD and Automation
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Automate application builds, testing, security checks, and deployments.
• Implement environment-specific deployment strategies for Development, QA, Staging, and Production.
• Manage Git workflows, branching strategies, release management, and rollback procedures.
• Integrate automated quality checks and security scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain deployment reliability and reduce manual operational tasks through scripting and automation.
5. Monitoring, Logging, and Observability
• Implement and maintain centralized logging using the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
• Configure infrastructure and application monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and service health monitoring.
• Monitor application performance, infrastructure metrics, errors, and resource utilization.
• Lead incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and preventive action implementation.
6. Database Operations
• Manage and support database infrastructure and connectivity for:
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)
MongoDB
• Support database backup, restore, migration, and recovery activities.
• Troubleshoot database connectivity, access permissions, performance issues, and resource constraints.
• Coordinate with development and database teams to ensure database availability, security, and operational reliability.
7. Security and Reliability
• Implement cloud security best practices and least-privilege IAM access.
• Secure application secrets, credentials, certificates, and environment configurations.
• Apply patch management, vulnerability remediation, and infrastructure hardening.
• Support high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
Required Technical Skills
• Cloud: AWS ECS, EC2, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway
• Containers: Docker, container deployment and troubleshooting
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, pipeline automation, release management
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana
• Logging: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK Stack)
• Databases: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), MongoDB
• Version Control: Git and GitHub
• Automation: Bash/Shell scripting; Python knowledge is an advantage
• Infrastructure: Linux administration, networking, IAM, security, troubleshooting, backup, and disaster recovery
Qualifications
• B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline, or a degree in Computer Applications (BCA/MCA).
• 5+ years of overall IT experience, with substantial hands-on experience in DevOps and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Previous experience leading a DevOps team or mentoring DevOps engineers is preferred.
• Strong experience in CI/CD pipeline design, cloud infrastructure management, containerization, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, leadership, and coordination skills.
Better to have following certifications
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience with Kubernetes, security scanning, and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience supporting production workloads and handling critical incidents.