Job Description

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

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.
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
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