The Role
About Brillio:
Brillio is one of the fastest growing digital technology service providers and a partner of choice for many Fortune 1000 companies seeking to turn disruption into a competitive advantage through innovative digital adoption. Brillio, renowned for its world-class professionals, referred to as "Brillians", distinguishes itself through their capacity to seamlessly integrate cutting-edge digital and design thinking skills with an unwavering dedication to client satisfaction.
Brillio takes pride in its status as an employer of choice, consistently attracting the most exceptional and talented individuals due to its unwavering emphasis on contemporary, groundbreaking technologies, and exclusive digital projects. Brillio's relentless commitment to providing an exceptional experience to its Brillians and nurturing their full potential consistently garners them the Great Place to Work® certification year after year.
Role: Lead Devops Engineer
Location: Remote (Anywhere in US)
Job Description:
The DevOps SME is a senior technical leader responsible for defining best practices, driving automation, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud and on prem environments. This role provides deep subject-matter expertise in CI/CD, cloud platforms, configuration management, observability, site reliability, and DevOps culture. The SME works closely with development, QA, infrastructure, and security teams to build highly automated and resilient systems.
Key Responsibilities:
1. DevOps Strategy & Architecture
• Define scalable DevOps architectures aligned with business and application needs.
• Establish DevOps best practices, tooling standards, and governance frameworks.
• Drive implementation of cloud native solutions and infrastructure modernization.
2. CI/CD Pipeline Ownership
• Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for seamless code integration and deployment.
• Standardize pipeline templates, enforce quality gates, and integrate automated testing.
• Implement multi stage deployments (Dev → QA → Staging → Prod) with rollback strategies.
3. Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise
• Provide hands-on expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Lead cloud provisioning using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or Pulumi.
• Ensure scalability, cost optimization, and high availability across environments.
4. Automation & Configuration Management
• Drive end to end automation for deployments, monitoring, patching, and environment setup.
• Implement configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack.
5. Observability, Monitoring & Reliability
• Define SLIs/SLOs and ensure system reliability using SRE principles.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, etc.
• Perform RCA (Root Cause Analysis), improve system resilience, and reduce MTTR.
6. Security & Compliance
• Integrate DevSecOps practices into pipelines, including SAST/DAST, secrets scanning, SBOM, and container scanning.
• Ensure compliance with security frameworks and automate vulnerability remediation workflows.
7. Collaboration & Leadership
• Act as the central advisor for all DevOps-related technical decisions.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and guide cross-functional teams on tool adoption and automation practices.
• Conduct workshops, trainings, and knowledge sharing sessions.
8. Innovation & Continuous Improvement
• Stay updated with AI-driven DevOps, GitOps, AIOps, and new automation trends.
• Recommend enhancements in performance, scalability, and deployment efficiency.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Skills
• Strong expertise in CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI.
• In-depth cloud skills: AWS / Azure / GCP.
• Proficient in containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift.
• Experience with IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Pulumi.
• Hands-on with scripting languages: Python, Bash, PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, load balancers, firewalls, DNS, VPN.
• Familiar with monitoring tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic.
• Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and DevSecOps tools.
Soft Skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to lead cross functional teams and drive automation culture.
Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, or related field.
• Professional certifications:
o AWS/Azure/GCP Architect
o CKA/CKAD
o Terraform Ass
Why should you apply for this role?
As Brillio continues to gain momentum as a trusted partner for our clients in their digital transformation journey, we strive to set new benchmarks for speed and value creation. The DI team at Brillio is at the forefront of leading this charge by reimagining and executing how we structure, sell and deliver our services to better serve our clients.
DI: https://www.brillio.com/services-digital-infrastructure/
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Equal Employment Opportunity Declaration
Brillio is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, colour, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
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The Company
What We Do
Brillio is the leader in global digital business transformation, applying technology with a human touch. We help businesses define internal and external transformation objectives, and translate those objectives into actionable market strategies using proprietary technologies. With 2600+ experts and 13 offices worldwide, Brillio is the ideal partner for enterprises that want to quickly increase their core business productivity, and achieve a competitive edge, with the latest digital solutions.
