Lead / Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

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The Lead DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in shaping, leading and implementing the cloud deployment and automation frameworks that power Synamedia products across AWS and Google Cloud. The successful candidate will ensure high availability and resilience of CI / CD pipelines and cloud applications while providing organizational expertise on best practices for cloud operations and cloud security.

Key Responsibilities :

Leadership : Provide cross-team leadership and direction setting on areas of subject matter expertise.

Collaboration : Collaborate with the product team stakeholders on needs and requirements

Deployment Frameworks : Maintain and enhance a cross-product Terraform and Ansible framework for automating cloud deployments across AWS and Google Cloud.

CI / CD Pipelines : Operate, monitor, and improve a cross-platform CI / CD pipeline ensuring scalability, reliability, and availability.

Cloud Expertise : Act as a subject matter expert on cloud infrastructure, practices, and security across the organization, ensuring compliance with security and governance standards.

Collaboration : Partner with product engineering teams to optimize cloud usage, improve automation, and streamline development workflows.

Innovation : Research, evaluate, and recommend new tools and processes to improve cloud deployments and DevOps maturity.

Incident Management : Troubleshoot infrastructure and pipeline issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to development and operations.

On Call : Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours / weekend production incidents.

Technical Expertise :

Deployment Frameworks : Maintain and enhance a cross-product Terraform and Ansible framework for automating cloud deployments across AWS and Google Cloud.

CI / CD Pipelines : Operate, monitor, and improve a cross-platform CI / CD pipeline ensuring scalability, reliability, and availability.

Cloud Expertise : Act as a subject matter expert on cloud infrastructure, practices, and security across the organization, ensuring compliance with security and governance standards.

Collaboration : Partner with product engineering teams to optimize cloud usage, improve automation, and streamline development workflows.

Innovation : Research, evaluate, and recommend new tools and processes to improve cloud deployments and DevOps maturity.

Incident Management : Troubleshoot infrastructure and pipeline issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to development and operations.

Required Skills and Qualifications :

Demonstrated experience with successfully developing infrastructure provisioning and frameworks and operating in highly resilient cloud-based applications

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Effective communication and interpersonal skills.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Note : While the role is primarily focused on technical aspects, there may be occasional instances where the consultant needs to work outside of regular business hours to address critical issues or meet project deadlines.

Growth Opportunities

When welcoming new talent into the team, we are always looking for opportunities to bring in new ideas, those who ask challenging questions and have the curiosity to learn. These qualities are important to us as we nurture a culture of innovation, seize more opportunities to partner with our customers and make a difference as we transform the future of video. To further support your growth and that of our talent pool, Synamedia offers an exhaustive library of skill enhancement resources from AWS, SkillSoft and other partners to help you upskill while on the job. Be it data analytics that piques your brain or content creation, theres something for every kind of mind.

Benefits and Perks

Flexible working arrangements.

Competitive pay hikes and bonus packages.

Skill enhancement and growth opportunities.

Equal opportunity employment.

Health and wellbeing programmes.

Collaborative work with a truly global team.

A Culture of Belonging

Synamedia is committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive and equal opportunity community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. Our values connect us, and we love to win together. We work with a bias to action, have a bold approach and encourage being deeply curious to grow and evolve, as a team.

In our aim to foster a people-friendly environment, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, engagement activities and services to support all our colleagues across our 20 office locations. Synamedia regularly organises community events that promote cohesion and diversity among colleagues. We are proud of our mental health wellbeing initiatives, our Pride month awareness campaign, our cancer awareness programme and much more.