Lead DevOps Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team and work closely with customer and project stakeholders.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with responsibility for driving and owning infrastructure projects end-to-end across both Microsoft Azure and on-premises environments. The role will cover existing platforms such as Confluence and Grafana, as well as custom infrastructure and applications. Responsibilities will include modernizing and migrating workloads to Azure, establishing appropriate monitoring, improving automation and operational reliability, and ensuring that infrastructure knowledge and operational documentation are maintained.

The successful candidate is expected not only to implement technical solutions, but also to take ownership, identify improvements, define technical approaches, coordinate implementation, and drive infrastructure initiatives through to operational handover.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive infrastructure projects from assessment and design through implementation, migration, and operational handover
• Lead modernization and migration of existing on-premises infrastructure, services, and applications to Microsoft Azure
• Support platforms such as Confluence, Grafana, and custom infrastructure solutions, including their availability, configuration, upgrades, security, and lifecycle
• Assess existing infrastructure and recommend improvements in architecture, automation, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Deploy, manage, and optimize infrastructure using Microsoft Azure services, including containerized workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Docker
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates
• Integrate infrastructure and applications with Dynatrace to provide monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational visibility
• Improve monitoring and logging solutions, including Dynatrace, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Sentinel, and Seq
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and maintenance using PowerShell, Bash, and Python
• Ensure infrastructure components are properly documented and that architecture, configuration, deployment, recovery, and operational documentation is kept up to date in the Confluence knowledge base
• Drive infrastructure-related technical decisions and coordinate implementation with application development, support, security, architecture, and customer teams
• Support vulnerability remediation, compliance activities, security improvements, and production incident investigation
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and support to other DevOps engineers where required

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or infrastructure engineering role, with proven technical leadership experience
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure, including Azure App Service and Azure Kubernetes Service
• Proficiency in CI/CD design and implementation using Azure DevOps
• Skills in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates
• Background in containerization and orchestration with Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, and Docker
• Competency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, and Python
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex infrastructure initiatives and drive them independently
• Capability to assess an existing environment, identify gaps, and propose practical technical solutions
• Understanding of production infrastructure, operational readiness, reliability, and maintainability
• Showcase of leading technical discussions and making or facilitating architecture and implementation decisions, including coordinating work across multiple engineering teams and customer stakeholders
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud, infrastructure, networking, deployment, and application integration areas
• Flexibility to balance hands-on engineering work with technical leadership and coordination responsibilities
• Excellent command of written and spoken English (B2+ level)

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Azure Monitor
• Knowledge of Dynatrace
• Understanding of Seq

We offer

CONTINUOUS UPSKILLING, LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

• Diversity of tasks and projects
• Assessment center for objective review of competency level
• Personal development plan
• Mentoring programs and leadership development
• Certification and professional development support 
• Access to learning platforms including more than 2,500 internal courses
• English courses taught by certified teachers

CORPORATE BENEFITS

• Extra leave days
• Referral bonuses

COMPENSATION PACKAGE

• Competitive compensation paid in USD
• Regular salary and performance reviews

MEDICAL & HEALTHCARE

• Private health insurance
• Well-being events

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• Recreation areas and kitchens
• Tea, coffee and snacks
• Sports equipment and game consoles
• IT Equipment
• Microsoft’s Software Assurance Home Use Program (HUP)

Please note that our Talent Attraction Team reviews applications and CVs submitted in English.

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