Lead DevOps/Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Platform Engineer to define and lead our organizations CI/CD, platform automation, and infrastructure strategies. As a senior technical leader, you will mentor teams, shape best practices, and drive infrastructure solutions that enable rapid, reliable, and secure application delivery across cloud-native environments.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Collaboration

• Define and execute DevOps and platform automation strategies aligned with organizational goals.
• Mentor, coach, and inspire senior and junior DevOps engineers; promote best practices and continuous improvement.
• Partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to architect reliable and scalable cloud environments, pipelines, and operational tooling.

Build & Optimize CI/CD Pipelines

• Architect and oversee enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Argo Workflows, Tekton, or similar.
• Improve build, test, and deployment automation processes, ensuring high performance and minimal downtime.
• Standardize pipelines with reusable templates, code quality checks, and automated rollback mechanisms.

Infrastructure as Code & Platform Automation

• Lead design and implementation of infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes (EKS or on-prem) with GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration management, and secret management to support scalable platforms.

SDLC & Release Management

• Own and refine SDLC workflows, ensuring seamless, automated, and secure software releases.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability for CI/CD pipelines and platform health.
• Enforce security, RBAC policies, and compliance standards throughout the SDLC.

Security & Compliance

• Enforce secure development practices, role-based access, least-privilege principles, and secrets management.
• Integrate security testing, vulnerability management, and code analysis within pipelines.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead cross-team collaboration on platform improvements, automation standards, and best practices.
• Document architecture decisions, operational runbooks, and pipeline configurations for transparency and onboarding.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, site reliability engineering.
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Shell, Go), automation, and cloud infrastructure automation (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Argo Workflows, Tekton, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Strong experience in API Gateways
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Expertise in infrastructure as code, configuration management, secrets management, and security automation.
• Proven track record of designing scalable, reliable, and secure platform solutions.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with enterprise developer portals, portal integrations, or platform APIs.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures or messaging systems like Kafka, SNS/SQS.
• Knowledge of compliance standards, data encryption, and audit frameworks.