Lead DevOps Engineer6-9 years
About Comprinno
Comprinno is a NASSCOM-incubated company headquartered in Bangalore, with offices in Pune, Coimbatore, and the United States. We specialize in cloud transformation, DevOps, infrastructure automation, and Artificial Intelligence, enabling organizations to build scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud environments on AWS.Our flagship SaaS platform, Tevico, offers intelligent cloud governance and observability for AWS workloads. It helps enterprises improve uptime, reduce costs, and ensure compliance by proactively detecting anomalies and triggering automated remediation workflows.As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Comprinno helps organizations migrate, modernize, secure, and operate cloud environments while adopting emerging technologies such as Generative AI and cloud-native architectures.About the RoleWe are looking for a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and delivery of enterprise cloud transformation initiatives on AWS.This is a customer-facing leadership role that combines cloud architecture, DevOps engineering, infrastructure automation, migration consulting, project leadership, and team mentorship. The ideal candidate will work closely with enterprise customers, solution architects, project managers, and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud solutions.In addition to hands-on technical execution, this role will play a critical part in customer solutioning, technical presales, migration planning, AWS Well-Architected Reviews, project delivery, and capability building within Comprinno's Cloud Engineering practice.This role requires regular interaction with enterprise customers and may involve travel across India and internationally for workshops, migration assessments, architecture reviews, project kickoffs, escalations, and strategic consulting engagements.Key ResponsibilitiesLeadership & Mentorship
- Lead and mentor teams of 3–5 Cloud & DevOps Engineers, driving technical excellence and career development.
- Conduct code reviews, architecture reviews, and provide technical guidance on complex engineering challenges.
- Define DevOps standards, engineering best practices, and operational processes across projects.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and foster a culture of automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, capability development, and performance evaluations.
- Create reusable Terraform modules, CI/CD frameworks, migration accelerators, automation scripts, architecture blueprints, and operational playbooks.
Customer Engagement
- Lead customer discovery sessions, requirement gathering workshops, and technical architecture discussions.
- Create comprehensive Statements of Work (SOWs) including project scope, timelines, deliverables, assumptions, risks, and resource plans.
- Build Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) assessments and ROI analyses for migration, modernization, and optimization initiatives.
- Prepare and present technical proposals, migration strategies, architecture diagrams, and transformation roadmaps.
- Conduct Proof of Concepts (POCs), solution demonstrations, and technical validations.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer engagement lifecycle.
- Conduct AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) and recommend remediation plans.
- Present modernization, security, resilience, and cost optimization recommendations to customer stakeholders.
Cloud Architecture & Migration
- Architect and lead migrations from VMware, on-premises environments, Azure, and GCP to AWS.
- Design AWS landing zones, multi-account architectures, governance models, and cloud operating models.
- Design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available AWS architectures.
- Lead migration initiatives involving infrastructure, databases, applications, and platform modernization.
- Utilize AWS migration services including:
- AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
- AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- AWS Migration Hub
- AWS Server Migration Service
- Design and implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solutions including:
- Pilot Light
- Warm Standby
- Multi-Region Active-Active
- Backup & Restore Strategies
- Ensure solutions align with AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
DevOps & Infrastructure Engineering
- Design and implement enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines with advanced deployment strategies such as:
- Blue-Green Deployments
- Canary Releases
- Rolling Updates
- Build and manage infrastructure using:
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CDK
- Design and implement containerized platforms using:
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Helm
- GitOps
- Implement comprehensive observability solutions using:
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- New Relic
- ELK/OpenSearch
- Implement DevSecOps practices, vulnerability management, secrets management, and security automation.
- Lead FinOps initiatives and drive cloud cost optimization programs.
Managed Services & Operational Readiness
- Design and transition customer environments into Managed Services operations.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, automation, documentation, and operational runbooks.
- Ensure operational readiness and knowledge transfer to CloudOps teams.
- Define SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for critical workloads.
- Improve operational maturity through automation and standardization.
Project & Incident Management
- Lead large-scale cloud transformation projects from planning through execution.
- Manage project timelines, risks, dependencies, stakeholder communication, and delivery governance.
- Drive major incident resolution and coordinate technical escalations.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including Development, Security, QA, Operations, and Customer teams.
- Manage on-call processes and escalation procedures where applicable.
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing
- Create architecture documents, runbooks, operational procedures, deployment guides, and technical standards.
- Deliver technical training sessions for customers and internal teams.
- Document lessons learned, reusable patterns, and implementation best practices.
- Contribute to Comprinno's Cloud Center of Excellence and knowledge repositories.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6–8 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Infrastructure Automation, or Platform Engineering.
- At least 3 years of experience leading engineering teams and mentoring technical professionals.
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud services including:
- EC2
- VPC
- S3
- IAM
- RDS
- Lambda
- EKS
- Route 53
- CloudFront
- CloudFormation
- Systems Manager
- Organizations
- Control Tower
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale cloud migrations.
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Strong expertise in:
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- Helm
- GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or Go.
- Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
- Deep understanding of Linux and Windows systems administration.
- Strong networking expertise including:
- VPC Design
- VPN
- Direct Connect
- Transit Gateway
- Load Balancers
- DNS
- Strong security expertise covering:
- IAM
- Encryption
- DevSecOps
- Compliance Frameworks
- Security Best Practices
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging platforms.
- Strong customer-facing consulting, solutioning, and stakeholder management experience.
- Experience creating SOWs, TCO assessments, technical proposals, and architecture documentation.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
- Strong Agile/Scrum experience and project delivery capabilities.
- Willingness to travel for customer engagements across India and internationally.
Certifications (Mandatory)
- AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
OR
- AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
Desired Qualifications & Skills
- AWS Security Specialty Certification.
- AWS Advanced Networking Specialty Certification.
- AWS Migration Specialty Certification.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or CKAD.
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification.
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification.
- Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification.
- Experience with Azure and GCP cloud platforms.
- Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
- Experience with API Gateway platforms such as Kong, Apigee, or AWS API Gateway.
- Advanced database migration and modernization experience.
- Experience with HashiCorp Vault, Consul, OpenShift, Jenkins X, or Spinnaker.
- Knowledge of serverless architectures and event-driven systems.
- FinOps expertise and cloud cost optimization frameworks.
- Experience supporting Managed Services environments.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted DevOps and Infrastructure Automation tools.
- Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in cloud and DevOps communities.
What We're Looking For
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities.
- Customer-first mindset with consulting orientation.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- High ownership and accountability.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business outcomes.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Passion for cloud technologies, automation, and continuous learning.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth consulting environment.
What Success Looks Like
- Successful delivery of cloud migration, modernization, and DevOps transformation projects.
- High customer satisfaction and trusted advisor relationships.
- Reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud environments delivered to customers.
- Consistent project execution within scope, timelines, and quality expectations.
- Increased automation, standardization, and operational maturity across customer environments.
- Successful mentoring and growth of engineering team members.
- Creation of reusable frameworks, accelerators, and best practices that improve delivery efficiency.
- Strong contribution to presales, solutioning, and business growth initiatives.
- Effective management of critical incidents and operational escalations.
Why Join Comprinno
- Work at the forefront of AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and AI innovation.
- Lead enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across diverse industries.
- Partner directly with customers and influence strategic technology decisions.
- Accelerate your growth toward Architect, Practice Lead, Delivery Head, or Consulting Leadership roles.
- Gain exposure to large-scale migration, modernization, resilience, security, and automation projects.
- Access AWS certification sponsorship, mentorship, and continuous learning opportunities.
- Contribute to innovative solutions including Tevico and future cloud-native platforms.
- Join a collaborative, ownership-driven culture focused on excellence, innovation, and customer success.
Pay: Up to ₹2,700,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
