IT Infrastructure & DevOps Lead (Hands-on)

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled IT Infrastructure & DevOps Lead to oversee and evolve our global infrastructure footprint — spanning bare metal servers and a unified cloud environment.
 This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for guiding a team of 3–5 DevOps engineers and system administrators, driving automation, reliability, and consolidation toward a streamlined, single-cloud architecture.

 Key Responsibilities

●     Lead and mentor a team of 3–5 DevOps engineers and system administrators, fostering a culture of ownership, performance, and continuous improvement.
●     Oversee the design, deployment, and operation of infrastructure across bare metal and a single chosen cloud provider (to be consolidated from multi-cloud).
●     Plan and execute the cloud consolidation strategy, ensuring efficiency, cost optimization, and operational simplicity.
●     Maintain and improve Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm-based environments — ensuring scalability, availability, and security.
●     Manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
●     Own monitoring, observability, and incident response processes for all production and staging systems.
●     Define and enforce security, access control, and compliance standards across environments.
●     Drive capacity planning, backup, and disaster recovery (DR) readiness.
●     Evaluate and integrate new DevOps tools or services that enhance performance, reliability, or developer productivity.
●     Collaborate with engineering and security teams to ensure infrastructure supports rapid and compliant product delivery.

Required Skills & Experience

●     8–10+ years in IT Infrastructure / DevOps roles, including 3+ years of leadership or team lead experience.
●     Proven hands-on expertise with:
○     Bare metal server management (hardware provisioning, networking, virtualization, PXE).
○     Linux systems administration (Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL).
○     Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (cluster lifecycle, scaling, upgrades).
○     Helm, Terraform, Ansible, and modern GitOps workflows.
○     Cloud infrastructure management on at least one major provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
●     Strong grasp of networking fundamentals (VPCs, VPNs, load balancing, DNS, routing).
●     Deep understanding of CI/CD, monitoring, and observability practices.

●     Knowledge of IT policies; key experience — working with DORA / EBA and 

      meeting audit requirements
●     Practical experience with security, identity, and compliance controls in cloud or hybrid setups.
●     Demonstrated ability to design and run high-availability and disaster recovery systems.
●     Excellent problem-solving, optimization, and debugging skills.

Preferred / Nice to Have

●     Experience in cloud cost optimization and migration/consolidation projects.
●     Knowledge of service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).
●     Scripting/programming experience in Python, Go, or Bash.
●     Familiarity with SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability engineering practices.

Soft Skills

●     Strong leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to balance strategic vision and hands-on delivery.
●     High ownership, initiative, and focus on operational excellence.
●     Effective communicator across technical and business teams.
●     Able to drive standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement across environments.