Head of DevOps

Description

We are seeking a hands-on Head of DevOps to lead and scale our global DevOps team. In this strategic role, you will transform our very complex setup and configuration process, which is currently text-based and manual, into a semi-automated and scalable. . You will be responsible for shaping our DevOps culture, driving automation, and managing the allocation of DevOps resources..

This is a high-impact leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, operational excellence, and strong collaboration with engineering, QA, and client delivery teams.

Revolution / transformation

Key Responsibilities

- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of DevOps engineers.

- Oversee environment versioning, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.

- revolutionize our text-based configuration into a generator-based process, supporting a quick span to multiple servers and flexibility to development expansions.

- Drive DevOps knowledge collection and team training - the DevOps team should be the Gold standard as to how to configure and deploy any component or module.

- Manage the team - recruit, train, allocate tasks, supervise delivery. (Note that you are not expected to be the technical leader).

- Drive adoption of DevOps best practices, including monitoring, incident response, and security hardening.

- Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery.

Requirements

- 7+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial capacity

- Experience working with multiple external customers.

- Strong knowledge of version control systems: Git and SVN.

- Strong background in Linux systems administration (preferably RedHat 8).

- Experience with Database applicative versioning

- Experience with large, non-cloud-based systems

- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python preferred).

- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

- Experience managing production systems in a mission-critical environment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in the financial industry, especially low-latency trading systems.

- Familiarity with RPM packaging and software delivery processes.

- Hands-on experience with MariaDB/MySQL, including DBA-level management and tuning.

- Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Solace), Solarflare network cards, and BigData tooling.

- Background in optimizing C++ applications on Linux is a strong advantage.

- Knowledge of security best practices on-prem environments .

- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.).

- Expertise in automation tools (Ansible preferred) and infrastructure scripting.

- Experience writing internal technical documentation and release notes.

- Deep understanding of container technologies, especially Docker.

Originally posted on Himalayas