DevOps Team Lead

Uffizio Group; Valsad District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Uffizio Group is seeking a DevOps Team Lead to build and scale reliable infrastructure for globally deployed SaaS platforms. This role involves designing efficient systems that improve uptime, deployment speed, and security across various products.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in DevOps, strong expertise in cloud services, CI/CD management, and a proactive mindset towards operational efficiency. The role is strategic for growth, and you will lead multiple teams in enhancing platform stability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering.
• 2+ years leading teams or handling critical production infrastructure.
• Experience managing production SaaS environments at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage, and optimize cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, redundancy, and disaster recovery planning.
• Manage Linux-based production environments.
• Handle scaling strategies for increasing device load and customer growth.

Skills

Linux Server Administration

AWS / GCP / Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI

Nginx / Apache

Load Balancers & Reverse Proxies

Networking & Security

Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Infrastructure Automation

Shell Scripting / Python

Job description

We are looking for a DevOps Team Lead who can build and scale a highly reliable infrastructure for globally deployed SaaS platforms. This is not a maintenance-only role.

The expectation is to architect systems that improve uptime, deployment speed, scalability, observability, security, and operational efficiency across multiple products and business units.

The role requires someone who can think beyond servers and CI/CD pipelines. We need a systems thinker who understands how infrastructure impacts customer experience, release velocity, support load, product scalability, and business growth.

The candidate will lead the DevOps function across multiple SaaS products handling:

• Real-time telematics workloads
• IoT device communication
• High-ingestion APIs
• Live tracking systems
• Video and sensor-based platforms
• Multi-tenant SaaS deployments

Key Responsibilities

Design, manage, and optimize cloud and on-premise infrastructure.

Ensure high availability, scalability, redundancy, and disaster recovery planning.

Manage Linux-based production environments.

Optimize infrastructure cost without compromising reliability.

Handle scaling strategies for increasing device load and customer growth.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines.

Reduce deployment risks and deployment time.

Automate build, deployment, rollback, and environment provisioning processes.

Standardize deployment practices across teams and products.

Monitoring & Reliability

Establish strong monitoring, alerting, and observability systems.

Implement proactive incident detection and root cause analysis.

Reduce downtime and improve platform stability.

Drive SRE-oriented operational maturity.

Security & Compliance

Implement infrastructure security best practices.

Manage access control, secrets management, SSL, firewall policies, backups, and vulnerability handling.

Ensure infrastructure hardening and operational compliance.

Containerization & Orchestration

Manage Dockerized environments and orchestration platforms.

Improve deployment consistency and environment portability.

Support microservices architecture where applicable.

Database & Performance Optimization

Work closely with backend and database teams on:

• Performance tuning
• Query optimization support
• Load balancing
• Caching strategies
• Replication and failover systems

Lead and mentor DevOps engineers.

Create operational SOPs and infrastructure standards.

Build accountability, documentation culture, and ownership within the team.

Coordinate with Development, QA, Support, and Product teams.

Handle production incidents with urgency and ownership.

Build escalation systems and incident response frameworks.

Conduct postmortem analysis and preventive planning.

Required Technical Skills: Strong Expertise In

• Linux Server Administration
• AWS / GCP / Azure
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
• Nginx / Apache
• Load Balancers & Reverse Proxies
• Networking & Security
• Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Zabbix, etc.)
• Infrastructure Automation
• Shell Scripting / Python

Good Understanding Of

• High-availability architecture
• Distributed systems
• Scaling real-time applications
• Database replication and clustering
• Message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis Streams, etc.)
• API infrastructure
• SSL, DNS, VPN, CDN, WAF

Nice to Have

• Experience in IoT or telematics platforms
• Experience managing large-scale real-time tracking systems
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• SRE practices
• Cost optimization at scale
• Multi-region deployment experience

This role is not for someone who only executes tickets.

We expect the person to:

• Think proactively instead of reactively
• Build systems before problems become incidents
• Create operational leverage through automation
• Reduce dependency on manual intervention
• Build infrastructure that supports aggressive business growth
• Create visibility and measurable operational KPIs

KPIs / Success Metrics

• Platform uptime
• Deployment frequency & stability
• MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery)
• Infrastructure scalability
• Security incident reduction
• Alert quality and monitoring maturity
• Automation coverage
• Infrastructure cost efficiency
• Team efficiency and operational discipline

Experience Required

• 5+ years in DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering
• 2+ years leading teams or handling critical production infrastructure
• Experience managing production SaaS environments at scale

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are not looking for a “server administrator.”

• Understand business impact of infrastructure decisions
• Scale systems under uncertainty
• Handles pressure calmly during outages
• Builds processes, not heroics
• Has strong ownership mindset
• Can challenge poor engineering practices
• Think in terms of reliability engineering, not firefighting

Why This Role Matters

For most SaaS companies, DevOps becomes a support function.

For us, it is a growth constraint or growth accelerator.

A weak DevOps team creates:

• Slow releases
• Customer dissatisfaction
• Downtime
• Engineering bottlenecks
• Support overload
• Revenue risk

A strong DevOps function compounds the effectiveness of every other department.

That is why this role is strategically important.