Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Title – Lead DevOps Engineer Company – ADBSafegate Labs India Location – Hyderabad Role Summary We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with strong leadership skills who can take ownership of DevOps responsibilities and drive a service-oriented architecture mindset across the team. You will design, build, and operate a container-based delivery platform (artifacts shipped as containers) and maintain reliable development and runtime environments across both virtualized (e.g., Azure VMware Solution) and physical server landscapes. You will champion engineering quality (clean code, testing, automated analysis), operational excellence (troubleshooting, observability), and security compliance (CIS hardening, CVE reporting). Key Responsibilities Technical leadership & collaboration Lead by example in engineering practices, mentoring team members and driving pragmatic standards. Collaborate with developers, platform/infrastructure, and security stakeholders to deliver efficient, reliable solutions in a small team environment. DevOps & CI/CD (container-centric) Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines where deliverables are container images , including versioning, promotion strategies, and traceability. Automate build, test, security checks, and deployment workflows; ensure repeatable environment provisioning. Integrate artifact/image registries, policy enforcement, and automated reporting. Containerization & orchestration Design and maintain container build patterns (base images, hardening, minimal images, SBOM where applicable). Operate and support container orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes , while also handling container runtime aspects beyond orchestration. Service-oriented architecture enablement Support teams in designing, deploying, and operating service-oriented/microservice-style systems (interfaces, contracts, runtime concerns). Enable platform capabilities for service reliability (health checks, rolling updates, scaling, dependency management). Infrastructure & OS platform engineering (Physical, Virtual, Managed) Provide and maintain tailored operating system baselines for: RHEL and Windows, Virtual environments (e.g., Azure, VMware Solution ) and physical servers Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management using Ansible and Terraform (for cloud infrastructure). Quality engineering & reliability Drive code quality practices: Clean Code , code reviews, static analysis, linting, formatting, and dependency hygiene. Ensure automated testing strategy coverage (integration/system), pipeline gating, and reproducible environments. Own troubleshooting across the stack (pipelines, containers, OS, network, runtime issues) and improve operability via metrics/logging/tracing. Security & compliance proof Implement and document security controls, including CIS hardening for OS and container images. Provide CVE reporting , vulnerability…