DevOps Lead chez Valsoft Corporation

Description

The DevOps Lead is responsible for shaping the strategy, governance, and implementation of DevOps practices across the organization. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with operational excellence and strategic foresight, ensuring scalability, automation, and reliability throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Working with a small, agile team, the DevOps Lead collaborates closely with Development, Operations, and AI Engineering stakeholders to drive modernization, automation, and innovation across both cloud and on-premise environments.

Key Responsibillties

• Define and implement the DevOps strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.

• Promote a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Define best practices and governance for CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and security.
• Coordinate with senior management and project stakeholders to ensure DevOps initiatives contribute to the broader digital transformation strategy.

Automation & Delivery

• Oversee the design and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple products and platforms.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code for standardized, reproducible environments.
• Drive automation across configuration management, testing, and monitoring.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Supervise cloud operations ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Guide the transition toward cloud-native architectures and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Ensure the integration of AI/ML workloads (MLOps) within the company’s infrastructure, supporting model deployment and lifecycle management.

Reliability & Observability

• Define and maintain SLAs/SLOs, ensuring optimal system reliability and uptime.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) in collaboration with Operations.
• Lead incident management and root-cause analysis, ensuring post-mortem documentation and continuous improvement.

Security & Compliance

• Enforce DevSecOps principles, integrating security checks within CI/CD and IaC pipelines.
• Collaborate with IT Security to ensure compliance with industry standards (ISO 27001, SOCx, GDPR, etc.).

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience (5+ years) in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles, including senior responsibilities.

• Strong technical background in (or similar):
    - Automation tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, n8n, Airflow.
    - Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Consul.
    - Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP (at least one required).
    - IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation.
    - Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.
    - Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, Go, Java or Node.js.
• Solid understanding of networking, system design, and distributed architectures.

Soft Skills

• Strong team-building, and mentoring abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
• Analytical mindset and problem-solving skills in complex environments.
• Strategic thinking and decision-making capability.
• Proactive attitude and passion for innovation in cloud, automation, and AI.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in multi-cloud strategies or hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of AI/ML platform operations.
• Certifications such as:
    - AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
    - Azure DevOps Expert
    - Google Cloud Professional Engineer