Overview

About the Role:We are looking for an experienced DevOps Lead - DevSecOps & Platform Engineering to define and lead our DevOps, DevSecOps, and platform engineering strategy across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.In this leadership role, you will drive infrastructure automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes platforms, cloud operations, security engineering, and reliability initiatives.

Responsibilities

• 1. Leadership & Platform Strategy:- Define and execute the DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, and platform engineering roadmap.
• Lead, mentor, and develop DevOps/SRE engineers, establishing engineering standards for code reviews, on-call operations, and incident management.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, product, and executive leadership on architecture, capacity planning, and infrastructure cost optimization.
• Own technology selection, vendor management, tooling budgets, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Drive platform standardization, automation, and continuous operational improvement.2. Infrastructure, Cloud & Automation:- Architect and govern scalable CI/CD pipelines across on-premises, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hybrid environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi, including reusable modules, state management, and configuration drift detection.
• Lead containerization and Kubernetes platform strategy, including multi-cluster and multi-region deployments.
• Design and manage hybrid cloud workloads using platforms such as Google Anthos or Azure Arc.
• Build and maintain automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, and rollback processes.
• Establish GitOps-based delivery practices using tools such as Argo CD and related CI/CD platforms.
• Ensure infrastructure scalability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency.3. DevSecOps, Security & Compliance:- Integrate security into the software development lifecycle through SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, IaC scanning, and secrets management.
• Implement software supply-chain security practices, including SBOM generation, SLSA principles, and container image signing.
• Enforce Zero Trust architecture, least-privilege IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, key management, and network segmentation.
• Implement policy as code using OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or HashiCorp Sentinel.
• Lead risk assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability management, patch governance, and remediation tracking against defined SLAs.
• Establish security controls, audit readiness, and compliance processes aligned with ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and other applicable frameworks.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to strengthen infrastructure governance and secure-by-design engineering practices.4. Reliability, Observability & Incident Management:- Define and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Establish observability across infrastructure and applications using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and OpenTelemetry.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, and corrective action tracking.
• Develop strategies to improve availability, performance, fault tolerance, and production reliability.
• Own disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning, including regular failover and recovery testing against defined RTO and RPO targets.
• Establish operational metrics and continuously improve platform reliability and engineering productivity.5. Networking, Governance & Cost Optimization:- Oversee infrastructure networking, including firewalls, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and network security controls.
• Drive infrastructure capacity planning, resource utilization, and cloud cost optimization through FinOps practices.
• Establish governance standards for infrastructure provisioning, deployment workflows, access controls, and operational processes.
• Communicate platform risks, security posture, reliability metrics, and technology roadmaps to senior leadership.Required Qualifications:- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.- 15+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering, including at least 4 years leading engineering teams or platforms.
• Deep expertise in on-premises infrastructure and hands-on experience with at least two major cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Production experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or CircleCI, along with GitOps practices.
• Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production, including container orchestration and cluster management.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent tools.

Qualifications

• Relevant certifications such as CKA, CKS, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Professional, AWS/Azure Security Specialty, CISSP, or CCSP.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with eBPF-based security tooling and runtime protection solutions such as Falco.
• Experience with security and vulnerability management tools such as HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Snyk, SonarQube, Wiz, or Prisma Cloud.
• Proven experience leading cloud migrations, data center modernization, or on-premises-to-hybrid cloud transformations.
• Exposure to FinOps, platform-as-a-product models, and developer self-service platforms.
• Experience establishing engineering governance, security policies, and operational best practices across multiple teams.Personal Attributes:- Strategic thinker with the ability to remain hands-on when required.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills under pressure.
• Clear communicator who builds trust across engineering, security, and business teams.
• Collaborative leader who develops teams and drives accountability.
• Passionate about automation, operational excellence, resilience, and secure-by-design systems.Role Highlights:- Lead DevOps, DevSecOps, and platform engineering strategy.
• Drive cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure modernization.
• Build secure, scalable, and highly available Kubernetes platforms.
• Influence engineering standards, security governance, and reliability practices.
• Partner with senior leadership on technology strategy and cost optimization. (ref:hirist.tech)