DevOps Manager

Azilen Technologies; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Azilen Technologies in Ahmedabad is seeking a seasoned DevOps and Cloud Engineering leader to design secure, scalable platforms and drive cloud strategy, automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, security, and reliability. You will mentor teams and partner with stakeholders to deliver engineering excellence.

You are a hands-on leader with 10+ years in DevOps/Cloud/SRE, strong AWS/Azure experience, infrastructure automation (Terraform), container orchestration, and security best practices;

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure.
• 2+ years in a Technical Lead or Manager role.
• Strong experience designing and managing AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Expertise in CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, release management.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, container orchestration.
• Understanding of cloud networking, VPC/VNet, DNS, load balancing, firewalls.
• Experience with Terraform, IaC, scripting, configuration management.
• Strong experience with databases and caches (S3, RDS, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka/MSK, CloudWatch).
• Experience building observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting.
• DevSecOps, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, backup, DR, high availability.
• Experience managing production incidents, RCA, capacity planning, and reliability.
• Leadership and people-management skills, mentoring and hiring.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps and Cloud Engineering function by designing secure, scalable platforms.
• Drive cloud strategy, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, security, and reliability.
• Mentor teams and partner with technical and business stakeholders to deliver engineering excellence.
• Establish and evolve standards for CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, security, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Oversee cloud migrations, platform modernization, and incident response readiness.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Leadership

SRE

Observability

Security

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/Elastic Stack

CloudWatch

Azure DevOps

Job description

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.