Lead DevOps Automation Engineer

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Overview

Lead DevOps Automation Engineers at Excella provide technical leadership and mentorship in designing and optimizing Continuous Delivery (CD) solutions. They drive strategic decision-making around DevOps automation cloud security and infrastructure as code ensuring teams deliver high-quality software efficiently and securely.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise DevOps solutions aligning with business goals.

• Define and enforce DevOps best practices across multiple teams optimizing pipelines for scalability and efficiency.

• Architect and manage automated infrastructure deployment in cloud environments.

• Guide security integration into CI/CD pipelines ensuring compliance with industry standards.

• Optimize test automation strategies to enhance system reliability and deployment confidence.

• Develop test data management solutions ensuring high-quality data for automated testing.

• Influence tooling and technology choices for version control CI/CD and infrastructure automation.

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to other DevOps Engineers.

• Communicate DevOps strategy and progress to stakeholders and clients.

Qualifications:

• 6 years of experience in DevOps automation or cloud engineering.

• Proven leadership experience in enterprise-level automation solutions.

• Expertise in CI/CD tools (GitLab Jenkins Bamboo CircleCI TravisCI).

• Advanced scripting and automation skills in Python Ruby Go C#.

• Strong understanding of cloud security IAM and network access management in AWS and/or Azure.

• Strong Command-line skills with Bash or PowerShell for operating system management with skills in package management service configuration logging process/resource monitoring and network configuration.

• Established experience creating deploying and orchestratingcode changes usingtools such as:Docker Kubernetes Docker SwarmElastic Container Service

• Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure. Should demonstrate skillwith network and access securityand the deploymentvia codeofmodern web and data applicationsand their constituent infrastructure

• Strong background in configuration management tools (Ansible Chef Puppet Packer).

• Familiarity with DORA metrics DevOps Research and Assessment and Agile methodologies.

• Excellent communication skills with experience engaging executive stakeholders and decision-makers.

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