Head of DevOps Engineering

About the Client

Our client is a fast-scaling, technology-driven company operating at the intersection of digital infrastructure and modern supply chain solutions. With a strong emphasis on innovation, automation, and cross-functional collaboration, the organization is deeply invested in cloud-native technologies and platform scalability. They're on a mission to enable seamless product delivery through highly reliable, performant, and secure infrastructure systems.

About the Role

Our client is seeking a hands-on Head of DevOps Engineering to lead the charge in redefining their infrastructure, platform operations, and incident response strategy. This is a deeply technical leadership role suited for a Principal-level DevOps or SRE architect who thrives on building scalable systems, driving automation, and fostering a high-ownership engineering culture. You'll be responsible for setting vision and execution across infrastructure, CI / CD, Kubernetes environments, and observability-while mentoring a growing team.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Automate : Lead the design and implementation of repeatable, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) environments-governing over 90% of infra via Terraform and GitOps principles.
• CI / CD Ownership : Redesign and own artifact-based deployment pipelines enabling safe, self-service deployments using tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Docker.
• Platform Engineering : Build multi-account, multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure leveraging EKS / ECS, with intelligent autoscaling (Karpenter, HPA) and containerized workloads.
• Cost Optimization : Lead cloud cost control initiatives, including SPOT instance utilization, rightsizing, tagging strategies, and architectural remediation-driving measurable efficiency gains (25%+ reduction).
• Observability & Reliability : Roll out comprehensive observability tooling-centralized logging, alerting, tracing-and establish actionable IR runbooks and downtime mitigation strategies.
• Team Leadership & Culture : Mentor DevOps / SRE engineers, establishing a culture of speed, operational excellence, and continuous feedback.
• Cross-functional Enablement : Collaborate with engineering and product teams to foster GitOps workflows and enable safe, low-trust deployments that reduce operational friction.
• Process Standardization : Develop strategic roadmaps, author runbooks, and create reusable deployment patterns and documentation to scale DevOps practices across the organization.

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Benefits & Why Join