Lead DevOps Engineer

Required Skills and Experience

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across multiple disciplines and levels.
• Demonstrated technical leadership or mentorship of engineers on complex, cross-team initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to drive reliability and performance improvements.
• Proven success building and optimizing CI/CD for an Azure-based SaaS application, including integrated code-quality and security scanning (e.g., SonarCloud and Black Duck).
• Experience configuring and enforcing repository and pipeline permissions to ensure scans run reliably and that access and approval controls are correctly applied.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (and/or GitHub Actions).
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform.
• Proficiency with the Azure CLI for operational and emergency tasks.
• Strong scripting skills in at least one of PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Experience building and running workloads with Docker on Azure Container Apps, Azure Web Apps, and Function Apps.
• Experience operating platform services such as Azure API Management, Databricks, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience managing network and firewall configurations and change-request processes.
• Strong knowledge of both Microsoft/Windows and Linux server environments.
• Working knowledge of version control and Git-based workflows.
• Experience working within an agile software development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of security principles and secure-by-design practices.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and of IIS configuration and management.
• Working knowledge of local and wide-area networking and associated technologies (switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, VNets, application gateways).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar area of study, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Experience