Lead DevOps Engineer – Platform & Kubernetes Leader

EVAM; Fatih; On-site; TRY 5,542,000 - 8,060,000; Full time

Job summary

EVAM is building a platform that runs mission-critical production workloads at scale. We seek a Lead DevOps Engineer to own the technical direction of our Kubernetes platform, build and grow a strong team, and transform incident learnings into systemic fixes.

The role focuses on platform ownership, people management, and setting engineering standards. You will lead a team across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments, drive CI/CD and GitOps, and collaborate with data/ML teams to scale real-time

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Eng in production.
• At least 2 years directly managing engineers.
• Strong Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.
• Experience operating AWS and/or Azure, multi-cloud/on-prem.
• Proficiency in Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Linux and scripting skills.
• Experience with observability stacks and production monitoring.
• Proven track record of architectural decisions and building teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and roadmap for Kubernetes platforms across AWS, Azure, and bare-metal environments (50+ microservices).
• Own people management for the DevOps/platform team: hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, performance reviews, career development.
• Coach and grow engineers, review designs and raise the technical bar.
• Set team goals and workload priorities, balancing platform roadmap with individual growth.
• Own and improve CI/CD and GitOps-based delivery pipelines with zero-downtime releases.
• Build and evolve observability (metrics, logs, traces) for deep visibility and rapid incident detection.
• Implement autoscaling, self-healing, and resilience patterns across services.
• Collaborate with data/ML teams to operate real-time ML workloads on Kubernetes.
• Enhance monitoring and incident detection with AI-assisted analysis and anomaly detection.
• Integrate security controls into pipelines and platform layers (DevSecOps).
• Lead incident response and drive postmortems into systemic reliability improvements.
• Own platform strategy conversations with engineering leadership balancing reliability, cost, and speed.
• Build self-service platform tooling and documentation to enable safe, fast shipping.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Leadership

Linux

Observability

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

Team management

Communication

Distributed systems

Education

BSc/MSc in Computer Science

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

EVAM is building a platform that runs mission-critical production workloads at scale. We seek a Lead DevOps Engineer to own the technical direction of our Kubernetes platform, build and grow a strong team, and transform incident learnings into systemic fixes.

The role focuses on platform ownership, people management, and setting engineering standards. You will lead a team across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments, drive CI/CD and GitOps, and collaborate with data/ML teams to scale real-time