DevOps Engineering Team Lead

We are looking for an experienced and talented DevOps Engineering Team Lead to join our team. In this role, you will combine hands-on technical expertise with strong leadership to drive our infrastructure projects, mentor team members, and ensure operational excellence.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers while remaining hands-on with technical tasks, providing technical guidance and career development support.
• Plan, assign, and review tasks to ensure project deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align DevOps strategies with business objectives.
• Establish and maintain DevOps best practices and ensure their adoption across the team.
• Oversee and participate in managing and building hybrid infrastructure projects.
• Configure and maintain internal services.
• Build and maintain monitoring systems to ensure system reliability.
• Drive the deployment of bare-metal environments and cloud-based solutions.
• Lead performance and integration testing efforts.
• Handle escalations for critical issues and ensure timely resolutions.

Qualifications:

• Continuous experience in DevOps/IT system administration for more than 5 years and a minimum of 2 years of experience in a DevOps leadership role.
• In-depth knowledge and practical experience with deployment and administration of Unix/Linux servers (e.g., Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/Centos).
• Strong understanding of common IT security practices.
• Experience in building and maintaining hybrid infrastructures.
• Expertise in implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack).
• Proficiency with virtualisation and containerisation tools.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001 requirements and CIS benchmarks.
• Working knowledge of databases and clustering (SQL, NoSQL).
• Proficiency in cloud-based DevOps practices, specifically with Terraform, Kubernetes (k8s), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Policy as Code (PaC).
• Strong understanding of Git workflows.
• Experience with log management tools.
• Advanced skills in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Go).
• Expertise in application and infrastructure monitoring in production environments.
• Good understanding of software development processes, including collaboration with SW development and QA teams.
• Advanced networking knowledge, including building and supporting local/global networks, ACLs, firewalls, VPN tunnels, and routing.
• Availability to be on call 24/7 (only in case of a disaster).

Leadership Skills:

• Proven experience leading or mentoring technical teams.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience fostering a collaborative team culture.

Would Be a Plus:

• Experience with AWS/GCP stack.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 stack.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes.