DevOps Team Lead

Good co India; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Good co India seeks a seasoned DevOps Lead to manage a cross-functional team and own cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP. You will drive automation, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC using Terraform and Ansible, while enforcing security, observability, and cost optimization.

You will mentor engineers, partner with software, QA, security, and product teams to streamline delivery, manage incidents, and promote best practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in IT with DevOps and automation experience.
• 2–4 years in team or technical leadership roles.
• Strong hands-on with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience designing/maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions).
• Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, and container orchestration.
• IaC with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in Linux, Python, Bash, and shells.
• Experience with monitoring/logging/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Understanding of SRE, DevSecOps, cloud security, networking, performance optimization.
• Experience in production environments, incident response, disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor DevOps engineers; drive automation and SRE practices.
• Design/maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Advance CI/CD pipelines for faster, reliable releases.
• Manage containers/orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement IaC with Terraform, Ansible; improve deployment procedures.
• Enforce DevOps best practices, security policies, cost controls.
• Oversee monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Collaborate with software, QA, security, and product teams to streamline workflows.
• Drive incident management, root-case analysis, and disaster recovery planning.
• Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and availability strategies.
• Promote continuous learning and conduct technical reviews.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Linux

Python

Shell scripting

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

SRE

DevSecOps

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Lead and manage the DevOps team, overseeing infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and cloud operations.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Drive CI/CD pipeline development and optimization to enable faster, reliable, and automated software releases.
• Manage containerization and orchestration platforms, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, and other automation tools.
• Establish and enforce DevOps best practices, operational standards, security policies, and deployment procedures.
• Oversee system monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
• Drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, ensuring system availability, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity initiatives.
• Collaborate with software engineering, QA, security, and product teams to streamline development and deployment workflows.
• Implement DevSecOps practices, vulnerability management, access controls, and cloud security standards.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, optimize cloud resource utilization, and manage operational costs.
• Mentor and develop DevOps engineers, conduct technical reviews, and promote continuous learning.
• Define and track operational KPIs, deployment frequency, system uptime, recovery time, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and tools to improve automation, scalability, and operational excellence.

Preferred candidate profile

• 6 to 11 years of overall IT experience, with substantial experience in DevOps engineering, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
• At least 2 to 4 years of experience in a team leadership or technical leadership role.
• Strong hands‑on expertise in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proven experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and microservices architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in Linux administration, Python, Bash, and Shell scripting.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar tools.
• Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, cloud security, networking, and system performance optimization.
• Experience managing production environments, incident response, root cause analysis, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, manage priorities, and collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure costs and implementing scalable enterprise‑grade solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; relevant master's degree and industry certifications preferred.