DevOps Lead

foundit; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

foundit seeks a seasoned DevOps leader to own a designated capability domain, drive adoption across product teams, and raise engineering standards. The role requires building roadmaps, guiding architecture, and mentoring engineers to deliver secure, scalable software.

You will anchor transformation initiatives, implement IaC and automated pipelines, and strengthen observability while collaborating with stakeholders across the organization in Bengaluru.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in CS/IT or related field.
• 6+ years in IT operations, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in at least one DevOps domain (CI/CD, IaC, cloud, etc.).
• Strong cybersecurity and secure software delivery knowledge.
• Experience with low-level solution architecture, IaC, and cloud.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and advance a designated DevOps capability domain with roadmap and improvements.
• Serve as SME and provide technical leadership for product teams.
• Lead maturity baselines, KPI tracking, gap analyses, and improvement opportunities.
• Drive capability adoption across product teams with roadmaps and backlogs.
• Conduct readiness assessments and gaps vs standards; define remediation plans.
• Plan and execute DevOps transformation initiatives, including budgets and delivery.
• Mentor embedded DevOps engineers to accelerate adoption.
• Ensure coaching, documentation, and knowledge transfer are included in engagements.
• Define objectives and exit criteria for transferring ownership to product teams.
• Provide low-level solution and cloud architecture guidance aligned with enterprise standards.
• Design IaC, deployment specs, and automation scripts for scalability and reliability.
• Promote observability, monitoring, and security in pipelines.
• Embed security controls into development pipelines and lifecycle.
• Promote standardized enterprise platforms and reusable capabilities.
• Track milestones, adoption progress, and risks; take corrective actions as needed.
• Perform code reviews and architecture reviews for quality and compliance.
• Stay current with emerging tech and AI-driven engineering practices.
• Demonstrate initiative and continuous learning in DevOps domain.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud architecture

Observability & monitoring

DevSecOps / security in SDLC

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Mentoring / coaching

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT or related

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own and advance a designated DevOps capability domain, defining its implementation patterns, adoption strategy, technical direction, roadmap, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Serve as the primary DevOps Capability Representative and subject matter expert for assigned product teams, providing technical leadership, standards guidance, architecture direction, and capability adoption support.
• Lead DevOps excellence evaluations by establishing maturity baselines, assessing current-state capabilities, defining and tracking key performance indicators, performing gap analyses, measuring progress against target-state objectives, and recommending improvement opportunities.
• Lead DevOps capability adoption across product teams by assessing current-state maturity, identifying capability gaps, establishing implementation backlogs, defining roadmaps, and driving adoption of enterprise DevOps standards.
• Perform application, platform, and team readiness assessments to identify technical, operational, process, skills, and capability gaps. Conduct gap assessments against enterprise cloud requirements, engineering standards, architecture principles, security requirements, and DevOps standards, and define remediation plans to address identified deficiencies.
• Lead the planning and execution of DevOps transformation and implementation initiatives, including roadmap development, backlog establishment, work prioritization, effort estimation, resource planning, budget forecasting, and day-to-day delivery coordination.
• Assign, lead, and support DevOps Engineers embedded within product teams to accelerate capability adoption, standards implementation, platform modernization, and delivery improvements.
• Ensure all engagements include structured coaching, mentoring, knowledge transfer, documentation, and capability enablement activities that increase team self-sufficiency and reduce long-term dependency on embedded DevOps support.
• Establish clear engagement objectives, success criteria, transition plans, and exit criteria that enable operational ownership to be successfully transferred to product teams once capabilities have been adopted.
• Provide low-level solution architecture and low-level cloud architecture guidance, ensuring applications, platforms, delivery pipelines, and operational practices remain aligned with enterprise standards, architecture principles, and strategic technology direction.
• Design, review, and contribute Infrastructure as Code (IaC), application deployment specifications, automation scripts, and reusable implementations that improve scalability, security, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead and promote observability and monitoring practices that improve visibility into application and platform health, reliability, performance, and operational effectiveness.
• Integrate security controls and tooling into development pipelines and partner with engineering teams to embed security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Apply and promote DevOps good practices, industry standards, enterprise architecture principles, and approved engineering patterns across product teams and platforms.
• Define and promote standard implementation patterns, ensuring teams leverage approved enterprise platforms, shared services, and reusable capabilities whenever practical and appropriate.
• Track delivery milestones, capability adoption progress, implementation outcomes, and team objectives, proactively identifying risks and driving corrective actions when required.
• Perform code reviews, architecture reviews, standards compliance reviews, and change-control assessments to identify quality, security, reliability, and compliance gaps.
• Promote awareness and adoption of enterprise platforms, shared services, engineering capabilities, and reusable solutions available across the organization.
• Create opportunities for experimentation, proof-of-concepts, pilot implementations, and innovation initiatives that improve engineering effectiveness, accelerate adoption, and support the evolution of DevOps capabilities.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, automation practices, cloud capabilities, observability approaches, and AI-driven engineering techniques, recommending solutions that improve the repeatability, reliability, security, and efficiency of software delivery.
• Demonstrate initiative, maintain a continuous learning mindset, and support the ongoing evolution of the assigned DevOps capability domain.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in IT operations, DevOps, platform engineering, or a related discipline.
• Deep expertise in at least one designated DevOps capability domain, such as CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud architecture, observability and monitoring, deployment automation, platform engineering, or DevSecOps.
• Strong technical background in DevOps practices, including cybersecurity and secure software delivery.
• Experience with low-level solution architecture, Infrastructure as Code, low-level cloud architecture, and observability and monitoring.
• Expert knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• Demonstrated understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Experience with Agile development and Scrum methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps good practices and relevant industry standards.
• Excellent project-management, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication, presentation, interpersonal, and stakeholder-management skills, including written and verbal communication.
• Strong English-language skills and comfort communicating in English with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and teach technical concepts to engineers and product teams.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and drive projects and capability outcomes to completion.
• Capability-ownership mindset with accountability for technical quality, adoption, standards, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with team and people leadership.
• Experience assessing candidates for technical positions.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly develop a working understanding of new technologies.
• Fast learner with a strong willingness to acquire and apply new skills.
• Demonstrated ability to accept feedback and take action