Lead Devops Engineer

$139,360 - $151,840/Yr

TEKsystems - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Dallas, TX

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Lead DevOps Engineer at TEKsystems is responsible for leading the DevOps team to ensure efficient delivery of services, designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with various teams to automate processes. This role requires strong expertise in Azure DevOps and containerization technologies, along with a solid understanding of infrastructure as code and cloud platforms. The position also involves mentoring team members, optimizing system performance, and maintaining documentation for provisioning services.

Responsibilities

• Act as lead engineer with the DevOps team to ensure efficient and effective delivery of services.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to automate and streamline processes.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Mentor and train other team members on DevOps best practices and tools.
• Document system configurations and build standards for all provisioning services, automation and environment lifecycle management.
• Research, evaluate and recommend the selection of cloud-related tools and emerging technologies for business use cases based on requirements and architecture standards.
• Act as subject matter expert and provide technical advice when required to other support teams and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with business partners, teammates and vendors to design, implement and maintain applications, services, systems and technologies to satisfy company needs.
• Plan and coordinate own work to meet commitments and quality expectations.
• Communicate with stakeholders as required: keeping them informed of project progress, impending changes, and agreed upon outages.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve DevOps processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in software development, cloud computing, and DevOps practices preferably within a large company or enterprise.
• Strong expertise in Azure DevOps, including pipelines, repositories, and artifacts.
• In-depth experience designing, implementing, upgrading and managing DevOps environments on both cloud and on-premises hosting models.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficient in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates.
• Experience with other cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud).
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics).
• Experienced with Agile framework for task management and delivery.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Excellent technical writing and documentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in a 24X7 enterprise production support environment required.

Nice-to-haves

• Good system and storage resource utilization forecasting and capacity planning skills.
• Working knowledge of system hardening, security and access control principles, techniques and tools.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)