Lead DevOps Engineer (Remote)

360training is a leader in online training, empowering learners with regulatory-approved education. They are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to define and drive the infrastructure and deployment strategy across their enterprise platform, focusing on cloud automation, CI/CD standardization, and platform reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the DevOps strategy across all brands and environments
• Partner with senior leadership on infrastructure architecture, deployment pipelines, and automation standards
• Establish DevOps policies, procedures, and best practices for consistency and scalability
• Mentor and develop DevOps engineers, fostering technical growth and ownership
• Drive collaboration with Development, QA, Security, and Data teams to ensure reliability and performance
• Lead the design and management of Azure infrastructure using Bicep and Terraform
• Oversee container orchestration using AKS and Azure Container Apps, including scalability, networking, and resilience
• Architect and standardize CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins
• Drive adoption of blue/green and canary deployments to enable zero-downtime releases across applications and services
• Implement automation for provisioning, patching, configuration, and scaling across environments
• Maintain governance for infrastructure code, ensuring consistency and compliance across all repositories
• Define SLA/SLO targets and operational KPIs for availability, performance, and deployment success
• Collaborate with Security to integrate security principles into every stage of the delivery pipeline
• Work with SRE to improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across cloud and container environments
• Lead root cause analyses and post-incident reviews, ensuring corrective and preventative measures are in place
• Maintain compliance alignment with frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS
• Assist with integration of acquired brands into a unified infrastructure and CI/CD framework
• Consolidate and standardize cloud deployments, IaC patterns, and DevOps tooling
• Migrate legacy systems to modern, automated, and containerized architectures
• Monitor and optimize Azure spend across compute, storage, and networking
• Drive cost efficiency through right-sizing, reserved instances, and pipeline optimization
• Partner with leadership to forecast and control cloud infrastructure budgets
• Stay current on emerging DevOps, IaC, and container technologies, particularly within the Azure ecosystem
• Evaluate new tools and practices to enhance automation, security, and operational efficiency
• Continuously refine pipelines and processes to reduce deployment time and operational overhead

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or architecture-focused role
• Deep hands-on expertise in Azure cloud services and hybrid infrastructure
• Advanced proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep)
• Strong experience with container orchestration (AKS, ACA, Kubernetes)
• Proven success designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins
• Solid understanding of networking, load balancing, DNS, and security principles in cloud environments
• Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, or Python)
• Experience in monitoring and observability (Azure Monitor, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Understanding of blue/green and canary deployment strategies
• Familiarity with Cloudflare (DNS, CDN, WAF)
• Familiarity with Helm, GitOps frameworks (ArgoCD, Flux), and container lifecycle management
• Working knowledge of security and compliance automation
• Strong understanding of cost governance and cloud resource optimization practices