Role Overview

The DevOps Lead is responsible for establishing, operating, and continuously improving the cloud platform, deployment pipelines, operational reliability, and engineering practices for a cloud-native digital supply chain platform on AWS supporting Oil & Gas operations.

Beyond traditional DevOps responsibilities, this role is expected to provide architectural guidance and actively contribute to the evolution and re-architecture of the platform as business, performance, scalability, security, and integration requirements evolve. The individual will serve as a key technical partner to the Technical Lead and Product Team, driving modernization initiatives, platform optimization, cloud governance, and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent) preferred.
Kubernetes and/or container platform certifications preferred.
DevOps, CI/CD, or Infrastructure-as-Code certifications are advantageous.

Overall Experience

10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud environments.
Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud-native applications in production environments.
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.
Experience contributing to solution architecture and cloud modernization initiatives.
Experience in Supply Chain, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, or other industrial sectors preferred.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS.
Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployment and platform services.
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices for repeatable and scalable deployments.
Ensure platform reliability, availability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
Monitor platform performance and proactively address operational risks and bottlenecks.
Lead cloud environment provisioning, configuration management, and release automation.
Collaborate with development teams to embed DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Define and enforce operational standards, deployment controls, and cloud governance practices.
Manage platform observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
Support production deployments, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and service restoration activities.
Optimize cloud resource utilization and drive FinOps best practices to manage cloud costs.
Work closely with Technical Leads, SAP teams, and integration teams to support platform integrations and deployments.
Architecture & Platform Evolution Responsibilities
Assess current platform architecture and identify opportunities for modernization and optimization.
Recommend and lead re-architecture initiatives based on scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and business needs.
Contribute to architecture reviews and technical design discussions.
Define reference architectures, deployment patterns, and cloud engineering standards.
Support migration from legacy implementation patterns to cloud-native architectures where required.
Provide recommendations on microservices adoption, container orchestration, event-driven architectures, and platform scalability strategies.
Partner with enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment with organizational standards and long-term technology roadmaps.

Mandatory Skills

Strong AWS cloud platform expertise.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation).
Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
Strong Kubernetes and containerization experience.
Experience in cloud architecture, solution design, and system modernization.
Ability to assess application architecture and recommend re-engineering or re-architecture approaches.
Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
Experience implementing DevSecOps and security automation practices.
Expertise in monitoring, observability, and production operations.
Strong troubleshooting and incident management capabilities.
Experience managing highly available and mission-critical systems.
Ability to collaborate with architects, developers, SAP teams, and business stakeholders.
Strong documentation, communication, and leadership skills.

Tools / Software

Cloud & Architecture - AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch), AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, AWS IAM, Well-Architected Framework
Infrastructure & Automation - Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm, Packer
Container & Orchestration - Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, OpenShift
CI/CD & DevSecOps - GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy
Monitoring & Observability - CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Dynatrace
Enterprise & Integration - SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, Kafka, REST APIs, EventBridge
Collaboration - Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint

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