Devops Manager

Azilen; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Azilen is seeking a senior DevOps/Cloud Engineering leader to design secure, scalable platforms across AWS and Azure. You will drive automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure while mentoring teams and partnering with stakeholders to elevate engineering excellence.

Responsibilities include platform reliability, incident management, and cloud cost optimization, with a focus on security and high availability. Exceptional leadership and communication are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure, with 2+ years in a Technical Lead or Manager role.
• Strong experience designing and managing AWS and Azure cloud environments and production infrastructure.
• Hands-on CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, and release management.
• Hands-on Kubernetes (incl. Amazon EKS), Docker, and production operations.
• Solid cloud networking knowledge (VPC/VNet, DNS, load balancing, firewalls).
• Infra automation via Terraform / IaC, scripting, and configuration management.
• Experience with S3, RDS, MongoDB, MySQL, MS SQL, Redis, Kafka/MSK, CloudWatch.
• Observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, metrics, tracing, alerting.
• DevSecOps focus: IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, backup, DR, HA.
• Incident management, RCA, capacity planning, performance optimization, operational readiness.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, hiring, and performance development.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps and Cloud Engineering function to design secure, scalable platforms.
• Drive cloud strategy, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, and security.
• Mentor teams and partner with technical and business stakeholders.
• Own platform reliability, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with Engineering, QA, Security, Product, and leadership to deliver platforms.

Skills

Leadership & people management

Cloud strategy & platform engineering

AWS & Azure production environments

CI/CD pipelines & tooling

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Git

Release management

Kubernetes & EKS

Docker & container orchestration

Terraform / IaC

Observability: Prometheus/Grafana/ELK

Cloud networking (VPC/VNet, DNS, load)

Security (DevSecOps, IAM, secrets)

Incidents & RCA, capacity planning

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/Elastic Stack

CloudWatch

Job description

Job Purpose:

Lead the DevOps and Cloud Engineering function by designing secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective platforms. Drive cloud strategy, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, security, reliability, and engineering excellence while mentoring teams and partnering with technical and business stakeholders.

Who You Are:

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure, with 2+ years in a Technical Lead or Manager role
• Strong experience designing and managing AWS and Azure cloud environments and production infrastructure
• Strong expertise in CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, release management, and deployment strategies
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker, container orchestration, scaling, and production operations
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, VPC/VNet, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, routing, security groups, and connectivity
• Experience with infrastructure and automation using Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code, scripting, and configuration management
• Strong experience with S3, RDS, MongoDB, MySQL, MS SQL, Redis, Kafka/MSK, and CloudWatch
• Experience building observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic Stack, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity
• Experience managing production incidents, RCA, capacity planning, performance optimization, and operational readiness
• Strong leadership and people-management skills, including mentoring, hiring, performance development, technical reviews, and team growth
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to translate technical challenges into business outcomes

What Will Excite Us:

• Experience defining and implementing DevOps and cloud strategy across multiple engineering teams and environments
• Experience establishing engineering standards for CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, security, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Strong experience with cloud migration, platform modernization, high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery
• Experience implementing DevSecOps across the software delivery lifecycle, including security scanning, vulnerability management, compliance, and secure software supply chains.
• Experience driving cloud cost optimization, resource governance, capacity planning, and FinOps practices.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement
• Experience leading technical architecture reviews, platform roadmaps, POCs, and large infrastructure initiatives
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into engineering, automation, operational, or developer-platform workflows
• Ability to evaluate new technologies and establish practical standards without unnecessary complexity.

What Will Excite You:

• Opportunity to own and shape the organization's DevOps, Cloud Engineering strategy
• Lead a high-performing DevOps team and build a strong culture of ownership, automation, reliability, and continuous improvement
• Architect modern cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and containerized environments
• Drive improvements across CI/CD, observability, security, scalability, reliability, and infrastructure automation
• Work closely with Engineering, QA, Security, Product, and Leadership teams to deliver reliable and scalable platforms
• Lead challenging cloud migrations, production transformations, and platform modernization initiatives
• Build a long-term roadmap for automation, operational excellence, and next-generation engineering practices

Location:

Ahmedabad (WFO)