Lead DevOps Engineer

Multi-Cloud & Multi-Tenant Infrastructure:

• Design and manage infrastructure across AWS and GCP, ensuring consistent networking, security, and deployment patterns across both clouds.
• Architect tenant-isolated environments with secure VPC networking — no public-facing IPs, private subnets, VPC peering, endpoints, and VPN connectivity.
• Build and operate production Kubernetes clusters to host containerized microservices at scale.
• Define the strategy for which workloads run where — cloud vs. on-premise — based on data sensitivity, latency, and compliance requirements.

CI,CD & Deployment Governance:

• Own and evolve a centralized, modular CI,CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions as the single path to production.
• Eliminate direct developer access to production environments; implement controlled deployment workflows using session-based access tools (e.g., AWS SSM Session Manager).
• Establish branch protection, image signing, environment promotion gates, and tenant-aware deployment strategies.

On-Premise Appliance Management:

• Oversee configuration management for client-site appliances using Chef for example in a client-server architecture.
• Drive the strategy to progressively centralize microservices into cloud-hosted infrastructure, minimizing the on-premise footprint.
• Define remote access procedures, failure runbooks, and contingency workflows for on-premise hardware.

Security & Compliance:

• Enforce infrastructure security best practices for a healthcare environment handling PHI and de-identified clinical data across tenant boundaries.
• Manage VPN-based access to private cloud networks and implement least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and policy-as-code across all environments.
• Ensure tenant data isolation at the network, storage, and compute layers.

Monitoring, Reliability & Backups:

• Build and maintain unified observability using Prometheus and Grafana across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Own the backup and disaster recovery strategy — container registries, automated snapshots, and cross-cloud resilience.
• Define and track SLOs for critical data pipelines and tenant-facing services.

Team & Process:

• Mentor junior DevOps,infrastructure engineers and collaborate closely with data engineering, AI, and IT teams.
• Recommend and help hire for supporting roles (e.g., IT support for on-premise hardware operations).
  • Establish DevOps standards, documentation, and runbooks for the team.