Lead DevOps

Project description

Project Goal:
Ongoing development and optimization of a large-scale eCommerce platform for a major US retail company serving millions of omnichannel customers weekly. The cloud migration phase has been completed. The current focus is on:

- CI/CD process optimization and standardization
- Infrastructure improvement and operational maturity
- Security hardening and compliance
- Performance, reliability and scalability improvements
- Continuous modernization of the cloud-native platform

The role focuses on improving engineering efficiency, infrastructure reliability, and security posture across a cloud-native microservices ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Improve and standardize CI/CD pipelines across teams
• Optimize build, test, and deployment processes
• Enhance Infrastructure as Code practices
• Improve observability, reliability, and scalability of the platform
• Drive security improvements across infrastructure and delivery pipelines
• Implement Dev Sec Ops  best practices
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve operational processes
• Participate in architectural decision‑making and continuous platform evolution
• Contribute to pre‑sales and technical consulting activities when required

• Core Technical
  
  Competencies:
  • Hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud provider:
    Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure
  • Strong Kubernetes experience (production environments)
  • CI/CD pipeline design and optimization
  • Infrastructure as Code:
    Terraform or Azure Bicep
  • Containers:
    Docker or Podman
  • Scripting:
    Python and/or Bash, Power Shell
  • Experience with security best practices in cloud‑native environments
• Leadership & Communication:
  • Experience leading or mentoring engineers
  • Strong client‑facing communication skills
  • Ability to drive cross‑team improvements

• Dev Sec Ops  tooling (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning)
• Experience improving SDLC governance
• CI/CD platforms:
  • Git Lab CI
  • Team City
  • Azure Dev Ops
  • Git Hub Actions
  • ArgoCD or Flux
• Configuration Management:
  • Salto Puppet
  • Chef
• Programming:
  • Python
  • Golang