We are looking for a DevOps Technical Team Lead to join our growing Platform Engineering / DevOps Enablement team. Our Platform Engineering organization is modernizing the platform through cloud-native technologies built on Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and modern CI/CD tooling. The DevOps team plays a critical role in this transformation. 

The DevOps Technical Team Lead will provide hands-on technical leadership across the team, set engineering direction, establish standards, guide solution design, mentor engineers, and lead the delivery of secure, reliable, and scalable platform capabilities. 

Responsibilities: 

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for DevOps and platform engineering initiatives. 

• Own the technical direction and solution design for CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and supporting platform capabilities. 

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines and reusable automation patterns. 

• Lead the design and governance of Infrastructure as Code for Microsoft Azure environments. 

• Define and maintain Kubernetes-based deployment standards, including Helm chart and release patterns. 

• Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable templates, and technical guardrails. 

• Use and integrate standard tooling such as, or similar to, GitHub, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, and JFrog Artifactory. 

• Embed secure delivery practices including SSO, role-based access, secrets management, security scanning, and auditability. 

• Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of complex build, pipeline, deployment, and environment issues. 

• Drive platform reliability and observability improvements, including logging, monitoring, alerting, recovery, and operational readiness. 

• Provide technical leadership during priority incidents and ensure lessons learned result in sustainable improvements. 

• Lead design reviews and code reviews, and document key technical decisions and trade-offs. 

• Mentor DevOps and platform engineers and support the development of engineering capability across the team. 

• Collaborate with engineers, architects, security partners, product stakeholders, and operational teams. 

• Own and improve operational documentation, technical standards, support models, and runbooks. 

• Engage in agile ceremonies, continuous improvement activities, and global platform initiatives. 

Qualifications: 

Recommended Education: 

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 

Recommended Experience: 

• 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, cloud engineering, or related roles. 

• Proven experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and leading complex engineering initiatives. 

• Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and reusable delivery patterns. 

• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, including modular design, testing, state management, and governance. 

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, identity, networking, security, monitoring, and operational concepts. 

• Practical Kubernetes and container workflow experience, including Helm and production deployment patterns. 

• Experience with source control, build orchestration, artifact repositories, and tooling such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, and JFrog Artifactory, or equivalents. 

• Experience embedding security scanning, access controls, secrets management, and compliance requirements into delivery workflows. 

• Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex cross-system issues and lead technical resolution under operational pressure. 

• Experience defining technical standards, documenting architecture decisions, and creating operational runbooks. 

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain technical risks and trade-offs in business terms. 

• Experience leveraging AI tools responsibly as part of routine engineering, automation, documentation, analysis, or troubleshooting activities. 

Supervisory Responsibility: 

☒ Individual Contributor / Technical Team Lead 

This role does not require direct people-management responsibility but provides technical leadership, mentoring, and delivery direction across the team.