DevOps Lead

Straive; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Straive is seeking a Senior Lead DevOps Engineer in Mumbai to architect and govern scalable cloud environments on AWS, applying Terraform and CloudFormation for infrastructure as code. You will own CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI, and drive secure, reliable deployments across teams.

You will mentor a team, shape deployment strategies (rolling updates, blue-green), and collaborate with development, QA, security, and customer engineering to improve release velocity and

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering experience.
• Strong AWS hands-on experience designing and managing cloud infra.
• Expert knowledge of: Kubernetes, Helm charts, manifest files, scaling policies.
• AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong experience with: Docker.
• ECS / Fargate.
• Linux/Windows administration and networking knowledge.
• VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Load Balancers.
• Cloud security best practices.
• Hands on strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Groovy.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CLI.
• Manage AWS services including Kubernetes, EC2 (Windows/Linux), VPC, IAM, Load Balancers, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ECS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, and KMS.
• Implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.
• Develop automated build, deployment, and release workflows.
• Manage branching strategies, build automation, and deployment processes.
• Integrate automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing into pipelines.
• Lead deployment strategies like rolling updates and blue-green deployments.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and customer engineering teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies using Jira and Confluence.
• Support release planning, environment management, and production readiness activities.

Skills

AWS cloud hands-on

CI/CD automation

Leadership / mentoring

Scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python)

Troubleshooting

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Lead DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and application deployment automation. The role will focus on building scalable, secure, and reliable cloud environments, improving deployment velocity, and driving DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CLI.
• Manage AWS services including Kubernetes, EC2 (Windows/Linux), VPC, IAM, Load Balancers, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ECS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, and KMS.
• Implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures.

CI/CD & Release Automation

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
• Develop automated build, deployment, and release workflows.
• Manage branching strategies, build automation, and deployment processes.
• Integrate automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing into pipelines.

Application Build & Deployment

• Manage build and deployment processes for:
• Microsoft .NET Framework / .NET Core applications using MSBuild.
• Angular + Node.js applications.
• Dockerized applications.
• Manage IIS, App Pools, Apache, and Nginx environments.

Containers & Orchestration

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), ECS, and container-based deployments.
• Manage container lifecycle, scaling, networking, and production deployments.
• Implement deployment strategies such as rolling updates and blue-green deployments.

Monitoring, Reliability & Security

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as:
• CloudWatch
• ELK Stack
• Perform incident management, troubleshooting, RCA, and reliability improvements.
• Implement DevSecOps practices including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and security controls.
• Work closely with development, QA, security, and customer engineering teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies using Jira and Confluence.
• Support release planning, environment management, and production readiness activities.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8–10 years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong AWS hands-on experience in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Expert knowledge of:
• Kubernetes, Helm charts, manifest files, scaling policies
• AWS CloudFormation
• Strong experience with:
• Docker
• ECS / Fargate
• Strong Linux/Windows administration and networking knowledge.
• Experience with:
• VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Load Balancers
• Cloud security best practices
• Hands on strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Groovy.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and customer-facing teams.

Preferred Skills / Good to Have

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certification.
• Experience with Ansible or other configuration management tools.
• Experience with:
• Service mesh technologies
• Database knowledge:
• AWS RDS SQL Server/MySQL
• Redis / Memcached
• Knowledge of advanced networking:
• VPNs
• Firewalls
• Load balancing
• Experience with AI-assisted DevOps automation tools.

Technical Environment

Cloud: AWS

IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions

Agile Tools: Jira, Confluence

Additional Expectations

The candidate should be a strong team player leading a team with an ownership mindset, capable of independently managing AWS environments, automation frameworks, deployments, and collaborating with global engineering/customer teams.