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Key Responsibilities DevSecOps Strategy & Leadership - Defines and executes comprehensive DevSecOps strategy and roadmap aligned with business objectives driving digital transformation, cloud adoption, and operational efficiency. Establishes DevOps maturity model assessing current state, defining target state, and creating actionable improvement plans. Drives cultural transformation promoting collaboration, automation, continuous improvement, and shared responsibility across development, security, and operations teams. Defines metrics and KPIs measuring DevOps effectiveness including DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, mean time to recovery). Communicates strategy and progress to executive leadership articulating business value, ROI, and risk mitigation.Enterprise CI/CD Platform Architecture - Leads design and implementation of enterprise CI/CD platforms and toolchains supporting hundreds of applications and development teams. Architects multi-tenant pipeline platforms providing self-service capabilities while maintaining governance, security, and cost control. Establishes pipeline standards, templates, and reusable components accelerating adoption and ensuring consistency. Designs multi-environment deployment strategies supporting complex promotion workflows across development, testing, staging, and production. Implements GitOps practices ensuring declarative, version-controlled, and auditable deployments. Evaluates and selects CI/CD tools balancing capabilities, cost, integration, and team expertise.Standards & Best Practices - Establishes comprehensive DevOps standards covering pipeline design, infrastructure as code, containerization, security integration, monitoring, and incident response. Creates reference architectures providing proven patterns for common scenarios including microservices deployment, data pipeline automation, and legacy system integration. Develops documentation, runbooks, and knowledge repositories enabling teams to adopt DevOps practices effectively. Conducts architecture reviews ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and best practices. Defines branching strategies, versioning approaches, and release management processes.Automation & Infrastructure Excellence - Drives automation initiatives across build, test, deployment, infrastructure management, and operational tasks eliminating manual processes and reducing toil. Leads Infrastructure as Code adoption implementing advanced patterns including module composition, state management strategies, and policy validation. Architects multi-cloud infrastructure supporting Azure as primary platform with strategic use of AWS and Google Cloud. Designs Kubernetes platforms at scale implementing cluster architecture, multi-tenancy, service mesh, and operator patterns. Establishes infrastructure testing and validation frameworks ensuring quality and compliance.Security Integration & Shift- Left - Leads security integration efforts embedding security controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle implementing shift-left security principles. Architects comprehensive security scanning strategies including SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and infrastructure scanning integrated into pipelines. Implements security as code using policy engines (OPA, Kyverno) for automated compliance validation. Designs secrets management architectures protecting credentials, certificates, and sensitive configuration. Establishes vulnerability management processes including detection, prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting. Creates security dashboards providing visibility into security posture across applications and infrastructure.Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - Establishes SRE practices defining service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets balancing reliability with feature velocity. Implements observability frameworks providing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing across distributed systems. Designs incident response processes including on-call rotations, escalation procedures, and post-mortem analysis. Drives chaos engineering initiatives testing system resilience through controlled failure injection. Conducts capacity planning ensuring infrastructure scales to meet demand while optimizing costs. Implements automated remediation reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR) for common issues.Team Leadership & Mentorship - Builds and leads high-performing DevSecOps teams recruiting talent, establishing team structure, and fostering growth. Mentors DevOps engineers, SREs, and infrastructure engineers on technical skills, best practices, and career development. Conducts training sessions and workshops spreading DevOps knowledge across the organization. Facilitates communities of practice sharing knowledge, solving common problems, and driving continuous improvement. Provides technical leadership during critical incidents and complex problem-solving scenarios. Establishes performance objectives and conducts regular feedback sessions.Required SkillsDevOps Leadership - Deep expertise in DevOps practices and culture, team building and mentorship, strategic thinking and roadmap development, change management, and organizational influence.Advanced CI/CD - Enterprise-scale pipeline architecture, multi-environment deployment strategies, GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux), pipeline security, and deployment automation patterns (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery).Infrastructure & Cloud - Advanced Infrastructure as Code patterns (Terraform modules, state management, policy validation), multi-cloud architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP), Kubernetes at scale (cluster architecture, operators, service mesh, multi-tenancy), and hybrid cloud connectivity.Security & Compliance - DevSecOps and shift-left practices, security automation (SAST, DAST, SCA), compliance as code (OPA, Kyverno), secrets management, vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance frameworks.Site Reliability Engineering - SLO/SLI definition and tracking, observability (metrics, logs, traces), incident response and on-call management, chaos engineering, capacity planning, and automated remediation.Platform Engineering - Internal developer platform design, developer experience optimization, self-service infrastructure, platform as product mindset, and platform API design.Tools & Technologies - Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Azure services, monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor), and security scanning tools.Required ExperienceEight or more years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles with three years in technical leadership or management positions. Proven track record building DevOps practices from the ground up establishing strategy, standards, and teams. Experience leading enterprise-scale CI/CD platform implementations serving hundreds of applications and development teams. Evidence of driving cultural transformation promoting DevOps practices across organizations. Track record establishing SRE practices, implementing observability solutions, and improving reliability metrics. Experience in insurance or financial services with understanding of regulatory compliance requirements. Demonstrated ability recruiting and developing high-performing technical teams.Required CertificationsMicrosoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305). Valuable additions: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), HashiCorp Certified Terraform - Professional, CISSP (for security focus).Key CompetenciesStrategic Leadership - Defining multi-year DevOps roadmaps, aligning technology initiatives with business strategy, communicating vision to diverse audiences, and driving organizational change.Technical Excellence - Deep technical expertise across DevOps disciplines, staying current with emerging technologies, evaluating tools and practices, and providing technical direction.Team Development - Building high-performing teams, mentoring engineers, fostering growth and learning, and creating inclusive, collaborative environments.Operational Excellence - Driving automation, improving reliability, optimizing costs, measuring effectiveness, and promoting continuous improvement culture.