Valsoft Corporation
The DevOps Lead is responsible for shaping the strategy, governance, and implementation of DevOps practices across the organization .
This role blends hands-on technical leadership with operational excellence and strategic foresight, ensuring scalability, automation, and reliability throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Working with a small, agile team, the DevOps Lead collaborates closely with Development, Operations, and AI Engineering stakeholders to drive modernization, automation, and innovation across both cloud and on-premise environments.
Key Responsibillties
Define and implement the DevOps strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.
Promote a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
Define best practices and governance for CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and security.
Coordinate with senior management and project stakeholders to ensure DevOps initiatives contribute to the broader digital transformation strategy.
Automation & Delivery
Oversee the design and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple products and platforms.
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code for standardized, reproducible environments.
Drive automation across configuration management, testing, and monitoring.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Supervise cloud operations ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Guide the transition toward cloud-native architectures and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
Ensure the integration of AI/ML workloads (MLOps) within the company’s infrastructure, supporting model deployment and lifecycle management.
Reliability & Observability
Define and maintain SLAs/SLOs, ensuring optimal system reliability and uptime.
Implement monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) in collaboration with Operations.
Lead incident management and root-cause analysis, ensuring post-mortem documentation and continuous improvement.
Security & Compliance
Enforce DevSecOps principles, integrating security checks within CI/CD and IaC pipelines.
Collaborate with IT Security to ensure compliance with industry standards (ISO 27001, SOCx, GDPR, etc.).
Required Qualifications
Proven experience (5+ years) in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles, including senior responsibilities.
Strong technical background in (or similar):
- Automation tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, n8n, Airflow. - Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Consul. - Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP (at least one required). - IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation. - Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK. - Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, Go, Java or Node.js.
Solid understanding of networking, system design, and distributed architectures.
Soft Skills
Strong team-building, and mentoring abilities.
Excellent communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
Analytical mindset and problem-solving skills in complex environments.
Strategic thinking and decision-making capability.
Proactive attitude and passion for innovation in cloud, automation, and AI.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in multi-cloud strategies or hybrid environments.
Knowledge of AI/ML platform operations.
Certifications such as:
- AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer - Azure DevOps Expert - Google Cloud Professional Engineer
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This role blends hands-on technical leadership with operational excellence and strategic foresight, ensuring scalability, automation, and reliability throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Working with a small, agile team, the DevOps Lead collaborates closely with Development, Operations, and AI Engineering stakeholders to drive modernization, automation, and innovation across both cloud and on-premise environments.
Key Responsibillties
Define and implement the DevOps strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.
Promote a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
Define best practices and governance for CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and security.
Coordinate with senior management and project stakeholders to ensure DevOps initiatives contribute to the broader digital transformation strategy.
Automation & Delivery
Oversee the design and optimization of CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple products and platforms.
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code for standardized, reproducible environments.
Drive automation across configuration management, testing, and monitoring.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Supervise cloud operations ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Guide the transition toward cloud-native architectures and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
Ensure the integration of AI/ML workloads (MLOps) within the company’s infrastructure, supporting model deployment and lifecycle management.
Reliability & Observability
Define and maintain SLAs/SLOs, ensuring optimal system reliability and uptime.
Implement monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) in collaboration with Operations.
Lead incident management and root-cause analysis, ensuring post-mortem documentation and continuous improvement.
Security & Compliance
Enforce DevSecOps principles, integrating security checks within CI/CD and IaC pipelines.
Collaborate with IT Security to ensure compliance with industry standards (ISO 27001, SOCx, GDPR, etc.).
Required Qualifications
Proven experience (5+ years) in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles, including senior responsibilities.
Strong technical background in (or similar):
- Automation tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, n8n, Airflow. - Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Consul. - Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP (at least one required). - IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation. - Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK. - Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, Go, Java or Node.js.
Solid understanding of networking, system design, and distributed architectures.
Soft Skills
Strong team-building, and mentoring abilities.
Excellent communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
Analytical mindset and problem-solving skills in complex environments.
Strategic thinking and decision-making capability.
Proactive attitude and passion for innovation in cloud, automation, and AI.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in multi-cloud strategies or hybrid environments.
Knowledge of AI/ML platform operations.
Certifications such as:
- AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer - Azure DevOps Expert - Google Cloud Professional Engineer
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