Lead DevOps

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

Responsibilities:

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 DevSecOps 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

Mandatory Skills Description:

Core Technical Competencies:
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Strong Kubernetes experience (production environments)
• CI/CD pipeline design and optimization
• Infrastructure as Code:
   o Terraform or Azure Bicep
• Containers:
   o Docker or Podman
• Scripting:
   o Python and/or Bash
   o PowerShell
• 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

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• DevSecOps tooling (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning)
• Experience improving SDLC governance
• CI/CD platforms:
   o GitLab CI
   o TeamCity
   o Azure DevOps
   o GitHub Actions
   o ArgoCD or Flux
• Configuration Management:
   o Salt
   o Puppet
   o Chef
• Programming:
   o Python
   o Golang

• English: B2 Upper Intermediate