SDE 3 (DevOps)

DevOps 3 Lead DevOps

Overview

We are seeking a DevOps 3 Lead DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Architect to own and scale our cloud-native infrastructure, with a deep focus on Kubernetes, platform reliability, and automation. This role requires strong architectural thinking, hands-on technical depth, and the ability to lead DevOps initiatives across multiple engineering teams. You will drive infrastructure design, build platform-level capabilities, and ensure our environments are secure, observable, cost-efficient, and highly scalable.

This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, SRE, cloud architecture, and platform engineering, and requires expert-level hands-on execution.

What Youll Do

Kubernetes Architecture & Platform Ownership

• Architect, design, and operate large-scale Kubernetes clusters (EKS/GKE/AKS) for microservices and data workloads.
• Define cluster topology, autoscaling strategies (HPA/VPA/Karpenter), node groups, and networking models.
• Build and maintain service mesh frameworks (Istio/Linkerd), ingress controllers, and API gateways.
• Develop internal platform tooling for deployments, traffic management, rollback, and cluster governance.
• Own cluster security: pod security standards, network policies, admission controllers, RBAC.

Infrastructure Architecture & Automation

• Design end-to-end cloud infrastructure architectures ensuring security, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Implement and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/Pulumi at org-wide scale.
• Define patterns for multi-account architecture, VPC design, load balancing, secret management, and zero-trust networking.
• Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives and implement FinOps practices.

CI/CD Platform & Deployment Engineering

• Architect highly reliable CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins / ArgoCD.
• Build automated release pipelines for microservices, operators, and stateful workloads.
• Set standards for blue/green, canary, shadow deploy, and progressive rollouts.
• Build reusable deployment templates and developer self-service mechanisms.

Reliability, Observability & Operations

• Own organization-wide monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, New Relic).
• Define SLOs/SLIs, reliability targets, and implement automated remediation workflows.
• Lead incident response for high-severity issues and drive long-term fixes through RCAs.
• Build platform-wide health dashboards, cluster insights, cost dashboards, and performance metrics.

Security & Compliance

• Implement Kubernetes and cloud-native security best practices: IAM hardening, OPA/Gatekeeper policies, secret lifecycle, container scanning, and runtime security.
• Automate compliance validations and enforce organization-wide DevSecOps policies.
• Partner with security teams for penetration tests, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor engineers and guide teams on DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud architecture.
• Lead technical design reviews, platform roadmap discussions, and cross-team initiatives.
• Influence engineering decisions by providing architectural recommendations and operational insights.

What Youll Bring

Core Technical Strengths

• 612 years of DevOps/SRE/Platform experience with deep Kubernetes expertise.
• Hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
• Expert-level understanding of:
• Kubernetes internals (scheduler, controller manager, CRDs, operators)
• Container runtime fundamentals
• Cluster networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress, DNS)
• Security (PSPs, policies, certificate mgmt)
• Strong cloud architecture experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), especially:
• VPC design, interconnects, NAT, security groups
• Load balancing, autoscaling, resilience patterns
• Monitoring stack setup and automation

Automation & Tooling

• Strong proficiency in IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD).
• Programming/scripting proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience building internal dev platforms, tools, and automation frameworks.

Soft Skills

• Ability to drive architecture discussions and make high-impact technical decisions.
• Leadership mindset with strong ownership and ability to influence without authority.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across engineering, security, and product teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-cluster, multi-region, or hybrid-cloud Kubernetes setups.
• Prior work with distributed systems, high-scale environments, or data platforms.
• Exposure to eBPF, Cilium, or advanced CNI plugins.
• Certifications such as CKA/CKAD/CKS or AWS Solutions Architect.