Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

As a Lead DevOps Engineer at Particle41 , you will own the DevOps strategy and the design, automation, and operation of the cloud infrastructure that powers our clients’ most complex digital projects. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will champion DevOps culture and practices, set the standards other teams build on, and ensure the delivery of innovative and high-quality projects. Your role will also involve mentoring and coaching team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous learning.
In This Role, You Will:
Strategy & Practice Ownership

- Own the DevOps technical roadmap and vision, in collaboration with architects and stakeholders, and align it with business goals.

- Define the "golden path": reference architectures, reusable IaC modules, pipeline templates, and standards that teams across projects adopt.

- Be accountable for platform reliability, security posture, and delivery velocity outcomes across the engagements you lead; measured through SLOs, not just activities performed.

- Represent the DevOps practice with clients: participate in discovery and pre-sales conversations, estimate and scope infrastructure workstreams, and advise client leadership on cloud and platform decisions.

- Contribute to growing the practice interview and assess DevOps candidates, and help shape team structure and capability development.

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

- Lead the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

- Architect and operate container platforms, including Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and managed container services, to support scalable, resilient workloads.

- Define landing zones, account/subscription structures, and network topologies that balance security, cost, and developer velocity.

- Evaluate and recommend platform tooling and managed services to support business requirements.

CI/CD & Automation

- Own the CI/CD strategy and pipeline architecture (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins) that makes releases fast, repeatable, and safe across teams.

- Drive an automation-first culture across build, test, deployment, and environment provisioning — setting the standard for eliminating manual toil, and staying hands-on where it matters most.

- Establish GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) for declarative, auditable deployments.

Reliability & Observability

- Define the observability strategy - monitoring, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry) and drive its adoption across teams.

- Own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering and product teams, and hold teams accountable to them.

- Own incident response, on-call practices, and blameless post-incident reviews to continuously improve system resilience.

- Plan for capacity, scalability, and disaster recovery, including backup strategies and multi-region considerations.

Security & Cost Optimization

- Own the DevSecOps posture: define and embed security standards into the delivery pipeline — secrets management, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and policy as code.

- Support compliance initiatives (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) with automated controls and evidence collection.

- Own cloud cost outcomes: drive right-sizing, autoscaling, and FinOps practices, and report spend posture to stakeholders.

Mentorship and Coaching

- Mentor and coach DevOps and software engineers to enhance their technical skills and expertise.

- Foster a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

- Review infrastructure code and pipeline changes, providing constructive feedback to improve quality and maintainability.

Leadership

- Provide technical leadership and guidance on infrastructure, platform, and operational decisions.

- Lead by example through hands-on in