Lead Devops Engineer
Nextbridge
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Job summary
Nextbridge is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and deployment initiatives while contributing to client-facing technical discussions.
The role combines hands-on DevOps expertise with strong communication, problem-solving, and collaboration with engineering, business development, and client teams. This position includes leadership and mentorship responsibilities across global client engagements.
Qualifications
- 5-8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or related field.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems and networking.
- Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or ELK/EFK.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and secure deployment practices.
- Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with cloud cost management and optimization across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Understanding of cloud pricing models, resource utilization, autoscaling, rightsizing, and cost-efficient architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment processes.
- Manage cloud environments across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and release processes.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, security, and performance of cloud environments.
- Analyze cloud infrastructure and workloads to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising performance, reliability, or security.
- Optimize cloud resource utilization, including compute, storage, databases, networking, Kubernetes workloads, and reserved/committed resources.
- Monitor and manage cloud spending, identify unnecessary or underutilized resources, and recommend practical cost-optimization strategies.
- Work with clients to assess their existing cloud infrastructure and propose cost-efficient architecture and deployment approaches.
- Implement cloud security practices, including IAM, secrets management, access controls, and secure deployment practices.
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, QA, security, and product teams.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps and engineering team members.
- Participate in client discovery meetings and technical discussions with international clients.
- Understand client requirements, technical challenges, infrastructure environments, and business objectives.
- Recommend appropriate cloud, DevOps, infrastructure, and deployment solutions.
- Support technical proposals, solution architecture, project scoping, effort estimation, and timelines.
- Present technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Work closely with the Business Development and Engineering teams to support opportunity qualification and project handover.
Skills
AWS
Azure
GCP
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
CloudFormation
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI/CD
Jenkins
Azure DevOps
Linux/Unix
Tools
Terraform
CloudFormation
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI/CD
Jenkins
Azure DevOps
Job description
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Lead Devops Engineer
We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and deployment initiatives while also contributing to client-facing technical discussions.
The ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on DevOps expertise with excellent communication and problem-solving skills. You will work closely with engineering and business development teams to understand client requirements, define technical solutions, and support pre-sales and solutioning activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment processes.
- Manage cloud environments across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and release processes.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, security, and performance of cloud environments.
- Analyze cloud infrastructure and workloads to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising performance, reliability, or security.
- Optimize cloud resource utilization, including compute, storage, databases, networking, Kubernetes workloads, and reserved/committed resources.
- Monitor and manage cloud spending, identify unnecessary or underutilized resources, and recommend practical cost-optimization strategies.
- Work with clients to assess their existing cloud infrastructure and propose cost-efficient architecture and deployment approaches.
- Implement cloud security practices, including IAM, secrets management, access controls, and secure deployment processes.
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, QA, security, and product teams.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps and engineering team members.
- Participate in client discovery meetings and technical discussions with international clients.
- Understand client requirements, technical challenges, infrastructure environments, and business objectives.
- Recommend appropriate cloud, DevOps, infrastructure, and deployment solutions.
- Support technical proposals, solution architecture, project scoping, effort estimation, and timelines.
- Present technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Work closely with the Business Development and Engineering teams to support opportunity qualification and project handover.
Required Qualifications
- 5-8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or a related field.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems and networking.
- Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or ELK/EFK.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and secure deployment practices.
- Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with cloud cost management and optimization across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Understanding of cloud pricing models, resource utilization, autoscaling, rightsizing, and cost-efficient architecture.
Client-Facing Skills
- Experience working with international clients in a technical capacity.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to conduct technical discovery and requirement-gathering discussions.
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Confidence in presenting technical concepts and architecture to clients.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience supporting technical pre-sales, solution consulting, or client solutioning is preferred.
- Ability to explain cloud infrastructure costs, optimization opportunities, and technical trade-offs to clients in a clear and practical manner.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Experience with AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or Google GKE.
- Knowledge of GitOps practices.
- Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Experience with cloud cost-management tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Trusted Advisor, Azure Cost Management, Google Cloud Billing, or similar platforms.
- Experience implementing FinOps or cloud cost-governance practices.
- Relevant AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certifications.
- Previous experience contributing to technical proposals or pre-sales activities
Partnerships & Recognition
Commitment to excellence
Founded in 1993, NEXTBRIDGE provides cutting-edge digital solutions to help startups, small, medium and large companies transform their operations.
Location
- United States
- Dubai
- Pakistan
Contact us
+1 858 355 9680 511 East John Carpenter Fwy, Suite 500
IRVING, TX 75062, USAFor Business Inquiries:
sales@nextbridge.comFor Job Applications:
careers@nextbridge.com
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