DevOps + Team Lead

DEVOPS TEAM LEAD

Skill Set

Technical Leadership: Platform squad oversight; sprint task definition; infrastructure architectural decisions

Containers & Orchestration: Docker; Kubernetes/AKS (RBAC, HPA/KEDA, PDB); Helm (chart authoring, library charts)

IaC: Terraform (Azure - AKS, PostgreSQL, Service Bus, Key Vault, APIM); Atlantis/Terraform Cloud

CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions; ArgoCD/Flux; Trivy, Checkov, OWASP dep-check

Cloud & Observability: Azure AKS/Service Bus/Monitor; Prometheus + Grafana; OpenTelemetry; ELK/OpenSearch

Messaging & Security: Kafka; RabbitMQ; Azure Key Vault / HashiCorp Vault; mTLS; Trivy/Snyk; FCA/PCI-DSS

Scripting: Python, Bash, Groovy - pipelines, runbooks, automated incident response

People: Mentoring/line management of 3–6 DevOps engineers; 1:1s, onboarding, performance reviews

Key Responsibilities

Lead the DevOps/platform squad; own Definition of Done/Ready; track velocity and flag risks.

Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines; implement blue/green, canary, and feature-flag progressive delivery.

Manage AKS clusters: node pool sizing, upgrades, namespace isolation, network policies, cost optimisation.

Author and maintain Terraform modules for all Azure infrastructure; enforce IaC review and state lock.

Design and operate observability stack: Prometheus, per-squad Grafana dashboards, distributed tracing.

Manage Kafka clusters and Azure Service Bus; drive pipeline security automation (SAST, scanning, secrets).

Maintain Elasticsearch cluster health; tune ILM policies for 52M+ invoice documents.

Lead on-call rotation; own post-incident reviews; mentor DevOps engineers and run knowledge-sharing sessions.

Coordinate with software delivery squads on platform enablement and pipeline improvements.

Requirements

8+ yrs DevOps / Platform Engineering / SRE; 2+ yrs in a team lead or tech lead role.

Expert Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent) and Helm; strong Terraform on Azure or AWS.

Production Kafka operations and Elasticsearch cluster management.

CI/CD pipeline design (Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions) and GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux).

Python for operational automation; FCA/PCI-DSS cloud security understanding essential.

Fintech or financial services background advantageous; Azure certs (AZ-104, AZ-400, CKA) a plus.

Nice to have: RabbitMQ; Groovy pipeline scripting; GitHub Actions