[Hiring] DevOps Team Lead @Zensar

Role Description

• Lead the DevOps/platform squad; own Definition of Done/Ready; track velocity and flag risks.
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines; implement blue/green, canary, and feature-flag progressive delivery.
• Manage AKS clusters: node pool sizing, upgrades, namespace isolation, network policies, cost optimisation.
• Author and maintain Terraform modules for all Azure infrastructure; enforce IaC review and state lock.
• Design and operate observability stack: Prometheus, per-squad Grafana dashboards, distributed tracing.
• Manage Kafka clusters and Azure Service Bus; drive pipeline security automation (SAST, scanning, secrets).
• Maintain Elasticsearch cluster health; tune ILM policies for 52M+ invoice documents.
• Lead on-call rotation; own post-incident reviews; mentor DevOps engineers and run knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Coordinate with software delivery squads on platform enablement and pipeline improvements.

Qualifications

• 8+ yrs DevOps / Platform Engineering / SRE; 2+ yrs in a team lead or tech lead role.
• Expert Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent) and Helm; strong Terraform on Azure or AWS.
• Production Kafka operations and Elasticsearch cluster management.
• CI/CD pipeline design (Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions) and GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux).
• Python for operational automation; FCA/PCI-DSS cloud security understanding essential.
• Fintech or financial services background advantageous; Azure certs (AZ-104, AZ-400, CKA) a plus.
• Nice to have: RabbitMQ; Groovy pipeline scripting; GitHub Actions.

Requirements

• Technical Leadership: Platform squad oversight; sprint task definition; infrastructure architectural decisions.
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker; Kubernetes/AKS (RBAC, HPA/KEDA, PDB); Helm (chart authoring, library charts).
• IaC: Terraform (Azure — AKS, PostgreSQL, Service Bus, Key Vault, APIM); Atlantis/Terraform Cloud.
• CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions; ArgoCD/Flux; Trivy, Checkov, OWASP dep-check.
• Cloud & Observability: Azure AKS/Service Bus/Monitor; Prometheus + Grafana; OpenTelemetry; ELK/OpenSearch.
• Messaging & Security: Kafka; RabbitMQ; Azure Key Vault / HashiCorp Vault; mTLS; Trivy/Snyk; FCA/PCI-DSS.
• Scripting: Python, Bash, Groovy — pipelines, runbooks, automated incident response.
• People: Mentoring/line management of 3–6 DevOps engineers; 1:1s, onboarding, performance reviews.

Benefits

• Experience-led everything.
• Commitment to conceptualizing, designing, engineering, marketing, and managing digital solutions.
• Inclusive workplace culture that celebrates individuality and encourages growth.
• Equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action employer.