Position Description

DevOps Lead (.NET Core | Azure DevOps | Site Reliability Engineering)

Role Overview

The DevOps SRE Lead is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and operational excellence of CI/CD platforms, cloud-native deployment strategies, and Site Reliability Engineering practices across enterprise applications running. The role combines deep technical expertise in Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, automation, and observability with leadership responsibilities focused on governance, reliability strategy, operational maturity, and team enablement.

The DevOps SRE Lead will drive platform reliability initiatives, define engineering standards, mentor DevOps and SRE engineers, and collaborate closely with development teams, cloud infrastructure teams, security, and solution architects to ensure highly resilient, scalable, and secure platform operations.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Detailed Responsibilities

DevOps Platform CI/CD Leadership
Lead the architecture, implementation, and governance of enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for .NET Core and containerized workloads
Define and standardize reusable YAML pipeline frameworks, deployment templates, and DevOps best practices
Establish enterprise release standards, branching strategies, approval workflows, and deployment governance
Drive automation initiatives for build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning
Provide technical leadership for AKS deployment strategies, Helm deployments, and GitOps integration patterns
Site Reliability Engineering Operational Excellence
Define and implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability scorecards
Lead platform reliability reviews and operational readiness assessments for critical services
Drive observability strategy using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and Grafana
Establish enterprise monitoring standards, operational dashboards, and intelligent alerting mechanisms
Lead capacity planning, resilience testing, failover validation, and disaster recovery readiness exercises
Incident Management Service Continuity
Act as the technical lead during major incidents and coordinate cross-functional resolution efforts
Lead root cause analysis sessions and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented
Drive continuous operational improvement initiatives to reduce incidents and eliminate operational toil
Implement self-healing automation, automated recovery workflows, and operational runbook orchestration
Monitor reliability KPIs and operational maturity metrics, providing regular reporting to leadership
Leadership, Governance Team Enablement
Mentor and guide DevOps and SRE engineers in platform engineering best practices and operational excellence
Establish DevOps governance models, standards, compliance controls, and engineering quality benchmarks
Partner with application development teams to accelerate DevOps adoption and self-service enablement
Lead onboarding activities for new services and ensure alignment with platform reliability standards
Drive continuous improvement programs, DevOps maturity assessments, and engineering transformation initiatives
Security, Compliance Risk Management
Ensure secure DevOps practices through integrated security scanning, secrets management, and policy enforcement
Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement governance controls within pipelines and deployments
Drive vulnerability remediation, compliance automation, and audit readiness activities
Define and maintain platform operational policies, escalation models, and change management procedures
Support enterprise risk management initiatives related to availability, reliability, and operational resilience

Competency Framework

Competency Expected Behavior / Outcome

Technical Leadership Provides strategic direction and technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices

Reliability Engineering Drives measurable improvements in service reliability, scalability, and operational resilience

Automation Excellence Champions automation-first approaches to reduce operational toil and improve efficiency

Incident Leadership Leads high-severity incident management with calm decision-making and accountability

Collaboration Mentorship Builds strong partnerships across teams while mentoring engineers and enabling self-service

Key Relationships

Stakeholder Engagement Focus

Application Development Teams - DevOps adoption, CI/CD modernization, deployment enablement, and operational support

Cloud / Kubernetes Engineers - AKS platform integration, infrastructure reliability, scalability, and deployment strategy

Solution Architects - Platform alignment, reliability architecture, resilience design, and modernization initiatives

Security Compliance - Secure DevOps implementation, governance controls, compliance automation, and audit readiness

Engineering Leadership - Operational reporting, reliability metrics, strategic planning, and transformation initiatives

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Must-Have Skills:

Competency Expected Behavior - Outcome

Pipeline Excellence - Builds well-structured, maintainable Azure DevOps pipelines that are fast, reliable, and easy to extend
Reliability Focus - Apply SRE principles to define measurable reliability targets and continuously improve service stability
Automation Mindset - Proactively identifies manual processes and replaces them with reliable, tested automation
Incident Ownership - Responds calmly and effectively during incidents; drives thorough post-incident analysis and follow-through
Developer Partnership - Works collaboratively with development teams; communicates clearly and enables others to self-serve

Good-to-Have Skills:

Application Development Teams - Pipeline design, deployment support, DevOps adoption, and developer enablement
Cloud / Kubernetes Engineers - AKS deployment integration, container delivery patterns, and infrastructure alignment
Solution Architects - Platform architecture alignment, reliability design, and release strategy discussions
Security Compliance - Pipeline security scanning, secrets management, and compliance gate integration

Skills:

ASP.NET Core
Azure
Azure DevOps
Banking
Communication
Digital Banking
Leadership
Release Management
Yaml
Deployment Automation
DevOps Engineering
DevOps Engineering

DevOps & SRE Lead (.NET Core | Azure DevOps | SRE)

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