Lead DevOps Engineer

Go Digital Technology Consulting; Mumbai City; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Go Digital Technology Consulting LLP is seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to architect and optimize a cloud-based data platform on AWS. You will lead migrations from Azure, implement Terraform-based IaC, and drive enterprise-grade CI/CD and Kubernetes/EKS solutions.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and collaborate with Data, Security, and Architecture teams to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS experience including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Glue.
• Strong expertise in Terraform with modular design and state management.
• Hands-on Ansible, Windows Server administration, and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Proven Azure-to-AWS migration leadership and platform modernization.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and management of scalable, secure AWS infrastructure for enterprise data platforms.
• Drive Azure-to-AWS migration projects and define migration strategy.
• Develop and govern IaC pipelines using Terraform and CI/CD tooling.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and establish engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with Data/Software/Security teams and maintain runbooks.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

EKS

Docker

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Windows Server

AWS IAM

Terraform State

Grafana

Dynatrace

Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

Kafka

Flink

AWS Glue

Lake Formation

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our cloud-based data platform on AWS. This role is responsible for architecting scalable cloud infrastructure, driving platform engineering initiatives, mentoring engineers, and ensuring reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization across the platform.

This is not a traditional application DevOps role. The focus is on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, Kubernetes, automation, and enabling enterprise-scale data platforms.

A key responsibility will be leading the migration of an existing data platform from Azure to AWS, including infrastructure design, Windows Server migration, containerization, Kubernetes/EKS implementation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, security, monitoring, and operational readiness.

The Lead DevOps Engineer will provide technical leadership, define best practices, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Security, and Architecture teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Drive the migration of an existing enterprise data platform from Azure to AWS.
• Analyze existing Azure environments and define the target AWS architecture and migration strategy.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code implementation using Terraform with reusable modules.
• Design and manage enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, applications, and data workloads.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment using Ansible.
• Design, administer, and support Windows Server environments, including automation, configuration, patching, hardening, and operational management.
• Architect, deploy, and manage production-grade Kubernetes/EKS clusters.
• Design and manage containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build reusable cloud platform capabilities for data engineering teams.
• Define AWS networking, IAM, security, governance, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Develop automation scripts and platform tooling using Python.
• Implement monitoring and observability solutions across cloud infrastructure.
• Lead production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and establish engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with Architects, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Security teams, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain architecture documentation, migration playbooks, operational runbooks, and platform standards.

Must-Have Skills & Qualifications

AWS Cloud

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including:
  • EC2
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • S3
  • RDS
  • EKS
  • Lambda
  • CloudWatch
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • EventBridge
  • Glue
• Strong production experience with Amazon EKS.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, RBAC, and troubleshooting.

Infrastructure as Code

• Advanced Terraform.
• State management.

Configuration Management (Mandatory)

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible.
• Playbooks.
• Roles.
• Inventory management.

Windows Server Administration (Mandatory)

• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server Administration.
• Active Directory fundamentals.
• IIS.
• PowerShell.
• Windows Server configuration.
• Patching.
• Security hardening.
• Performance tuning.
• Troubleshooting.

Containers

• Docker.
• Amazon EKS.

CI/CD

Experience with one or more:

• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions

Programming

• Strong Python scripting.
• Bash.
• PowerShell.
• Strong experience leading Azure-to-AWS migration projects.
• Infrastructure migration.
• Networking migration.
• Security migration.
• CI/CD migration.
• Platform migration.

DevOps

• Git.
• Automation.
• Release Management.
• Infrastructure Automation.
• Monitoring.

Database

• Amazon RDS.
• SQL.

Data Platform

Understanding of:

• Data Lakes.
• Distributed Systems.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Own AWS platform engineering strategy.
• Review infrastructure designs and Terraform code.
• Mentor and coach DevOps engineers.
• Define DevOps standards and best practices.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Security teams.
• Lead cloud migration planning and execution.
• Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Preferred Skills

• AWS Glue
• Lake Formation
• Grafana
• Dynatrace
• Vault
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Kafka
• Flink
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Experience

• 8-10 years of DevOps / Platform Engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands‑on AWS experience.
• 3+ years of production Kubernetes/EKS experience.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Windows Server Administration.
• Experience leading Azure-to-AWS migration initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and mentor engineers.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, and operating systems.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.