Tech Lead Engineer, DevOps

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)