Principal Consulting Solutions - Infrastructure, DevOps, Platform Eng

Role Overview

A DevOps/Platform Lead is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and enforcing DevOps standards across:

• Application delivery
• Cloud deployment
• Release enablement
• Infrastructure automation
• Operational readiness
• Platform engineering transformation

This person owns CI/CD strategy, deployment patterns, environment readiness models, and engineering practices required for large-scale modernization programs. They align Architecture, Engineering, QA, Security, and Platform teams to accelerate delivery while improving reliability.

Experience

• 8-10+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Release Engineering experience
• Consulting or client-facing transformation experience
• Experience leading enterprise modernization programs
• Cloud-native operating model expertise
• Strong platform engineering background
• Experience driving organizational DevOps adoption and maturity

Technical Skills

CI/CD & Automation

• GitHub Actions
• Azure DevOps
• Harness
• TeamCity
• Bitbucket
• Jenkins
• Pipeline orchestration and deployment automation

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Cloud provisioning automation
• Environment automation

Cloud & Containers

• AWS
• Azure
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• EKS
• ECS
• Tanzu

DevSecOps

• Wiz
• Veracode
• SonarQube
• Secure SDLC
• Compliance automation

Observability & Operations

• Dynatrace
• Datadog
• PagerDuty
• Elastic/OpenSearch
• LogicMonitor
• Operational analytics

AI-Enabled Engineering

• AI-assisted development
• AIOps
• Deployment intelligence
• Automated incident correlation
• Pipeline optimization
• AI workload deployment governance

Leadership Profile

The successful Platform / DevOps Lead:

• Owns platform strategy and engineering standards
• Creates reusable delivery accelerators
• Drives release governance and operational excellence
• Leads cross-functional workshops with clients
• Translates technical initiatives into business outcomes
• Aligns cloud, engineering, security, and operations teams
• Mentors distributed and offshore DevOps engineers
• Balances speed, governance, security, cost, and reliability