DevOps Team Lead – Development Platform

Responsibilities

• Line Management of a cross location team (onsite / nearshore)
• People development, performance, knowledge and skills management
• Optimizing team ways of working
• Fostering a sense of ownership and collaboration with other department teams
• Understanding development teams needs and designing CI/CD solutions (Java/Springboot stack)
• Driving observability, reliability and software development technologies adoption in the department
• Maintaining, architecting and evolving our development environment to improve efficiency and productivity
• Collaboration with ops team on technology adoption in higher environments
• Owning, improving and architecting build pipelines
• Ensuring maintenance of our Jenkins cluster
• Proactively coordinating with tech leadership and peers
• Breaking down work programs into phases and actionable work items
• Driving refinements, prioritizing work
• Arbitrage of project work vs ad‑hoc requests
• Roadmap planning – provide timely updates throughout the process and encourage early applications to ensure consideration

As a DevOps Team Lead, you will manage a cross‑location team while driving CI/CD modernization, infrastructure reliability, and DevOps adoption for a Java/Springboot development department. You will combine people management with hands‑on proficiency in Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS/Kubernetes, Terraform, and DevSecOps/GitOps practices. You will architect build systems, design scalable build infrastructure, improve team processes, and collaborate across leadership to deliver technical solutions and roadmap execution.

Qualifications

• Experience managing senior individual contributors across locations
• Proven track record of onboarding and adapting to new technologies
• Strong ownership mindset with effective problem‑solving capabilities
• Experience building/packaging JVM‑based projects with a focus on security compliance
• Hands‑on Jenkins experience: shared libraries, declarative/scripted pipelines, Job DSL
• Proficient in GitLab code hosting and CI/CD practices
• Experience with containers and container orchestration systems
• Experience with IaC, cloud computing
• Experience with an observability stack

Nice to Have

• Java/Springboot projects experience
• GitOps proficiency with ArgoCD (ApplicationSets, sync policies, multi‑environment promotion)
• AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3) with production‑grade reliability experience
• Kubernetes workload management, Helm/Helmfile chart authoring, Docker image best practices
• Terraform module development and state management for AWS infrastructure
• Monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK; incident investigation skills
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices across pipelines and infrastructure
• Familiarity with container and IaC vulnerability scanning
• Proficiency with secrets management using External Secrets Operator (ESO) with AWS Secrets Manager/SSM
• Ability to document systems, runbooks, pipelines, and platform processes

Benefits

• Clearly defined salary ranges aligned with industry benchmarks and internal equity standards
• Performance‑based incentives for eligible employees (as defined by relevant plan rules), awarded through transparent, objective criteria that recognize both individual and company performance
• Inclusive equitable benefits that are accessible to all employees and focused around our three main pillars of financial wellbeing, health & wellness
• Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways based on inclusive and transparent criteria
• Employee recognition programs that celebrate achievements and milestones for all

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or hiring process, please contact your recruiter for guidance and support.

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