Senior Lead DevOps Engineer - Azure, AKS & CI/CD

Insight Global; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to design, build, and support Azure-based, highly available platforms. You will lead initiatives across AKS, CI/CD, IaC, and automation, collaborating with Development, SRE, QA, Security, Cloud, and Infra teams.

This role demands hands-on leadership, strong cloud experience (Azure), and the ability to drive deployment reliability and scalability in large-scale environments. Based in Brentwood, TN, on-site position.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud/Platform Engineering or similar roles with leadership experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure and AKS in large-scale production environments; Azure experience is required.
• Experience with CI/CD architectures and reusable deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, manage, and troubleshoot infrastructure and applications on Microsoft Azure and Linux.
• Manage and support AKS environments, including deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, resource management, and production troubleshooting.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with reusable, standardized deployment workflows.
• Build and maintain Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments and config management.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform.
• Automate repetitive operational and deployment activities using Bash and Python scripts.
• Support deployment pipelines for Java microservices using Maven/Gradle and frontend apps with React/Next.js/Node.js.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps leadership

Automation

Infrastructure as code

Tools

AKS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Helm

Maven/Gradle

Node.js

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to design, build, and support Azure-based, highly available platforms. You will lead initiatives across AKS, CI/CD, IaC, and automation, collaborating with Development, SRE, QA, Security, Cloud, and Infra teams.

This role demands hands-on leadership, strong cloud experience (Azure), and the ability to drive deployment reliability and scalability in large-scale environments. Based in Brentwood, TN, on-site position.