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Position Summary  

The DevOps Lead Engineer is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP). This role drives infrastructure-as-code adoption, container orchestration, and observability practices while ensuring high system reliability and operational efficiency. The DevOps Lead Engineer mentors and guides DevOps team members, collaborates closely with engineering, security, and product teams, and embeds best practices in automation, governance, and cost optimization to support innovation and platform stability at scale.    

Key Responsibilities  

Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments  

Architect, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps  

Champion infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tools  

Design and manage containerized environments using Docker and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes or managed Kubernetes services  

Establish and enhance monitoring, logging, and observability platforms using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or cloud-native monitoring solutions  

Lead DevOps team members by providing technical guidance, mentorship, and performance support  

Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, security, and product teams to streamline release cycles and improve deployment reliability  

Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, governance sta n dards, and compliance requirements  

Drive cloud cost optimization strategies and infrastructure efficiency initiatives  

Promote a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement across platform and engineering teams  

Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues, ensuring minim a l disruption to business operations  

Contribute to documentation, standards development, and long-term platform architecture strategy  

Other duties as assigne d  

Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)  

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering  

• Minimum 2 years in a leadership or team-lead capacity  

• Strong expertise in multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)  

• Deep experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)  

• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible)  

• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes orchestration  

• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)  

• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar)  

• Solid understanding of networking, cloud security best practices, and cost optimization strategies  

• Proven ability to lead technical teams and collaborate cross-functionally  

• Relevant cloud certifications preferred  

• Alignment with RTS Core Values

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