iCIMS is a company that helps global organizations transform their business through talent. They are seeking an experienced Lead Engineer in DevOps to ensure the stability, scalability, and automation of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure while mentoring team members and collaborating with development and operations leaders.
Responsibilities:
- Mentor and develop a distributed team of 4-7 DevOps Engineers
- Coordinate work across Ireland, India, and North America time zones
- Drive alignment on priorities, sprint goals, and technical standards
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture
- Oversee design, maintenance, and improvement of CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure consistent deployment practices across multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Implement quality gates and automated testing within release pipelines
- Troubleshoot and resolve critical build and release issues
- Champion infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM)
- Standardize cloud provisioning, configuration, and resource management
- Lead adoption of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Modernize deployment workflows, phasing out legacy methods
- Provide tooling and automation to improve developer productivity
- Propose Optimizations for development and staging environments
- Support containerization of applications and services
- Collaborate with engineering teams on deployment requirements and optimization
- Define monitoring and alerting standards for developer infrastructure and pipelines
- Ensure effective capacity planning and cost optimization
- Participate in high-priority incident response and post-mortems
- Maintain clear documentation and operational runbooks
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, or Software Engineering
- 6+ years of experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineering teams
- Expertise with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Strong background in AWS (Azure and Google Cloud Platform exposure a plus)
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or equivalent)
- Excellent communication skills for working across global teams
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
- Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
- Experience with Java and Spring Boot deployments
- Familiarity with database automation, monitoring, and secrets management
- Cloud or Kubernetes certifications (AWS, Azure, CKA/CKAD)