Lead DevOps Engineer at Nextbridge — Cloud Infra & CI/CD

Comapny : Nextbridge

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and deployment initiatives while also contributing to client-facing technical discussions.

The ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on DevOps expertise with excellent communication and problem-solving skills. You will work closely with engineering and business development teams to understand client requirements, define technical solutions, and support pre-sales and solutioning activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment processes.
• Manage cloud environments across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and release processes.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, security, and performance of cloud environments.
• Analyze cloud infrastructure and workloads to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising performance, reliability, or security.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization, including compute, storage, databases, networking, Kubernetes workloads, and reserved/committed resources.
• Monitor and manage cloud spending, identify unnecessary or underutilized resources, and recommend practical cost-optimization strategies.
• Work with clients to assess their existing cloud infrastructure and propose cost-efficient architecture and deployment approaches.
• Implement cloud security practices, including IAM, secrets management, access controls, and secure deployment processes.
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, QA, security, and product teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps and engineering team members.
• Participate in client discovery meetings and technical discussions with international clients.
• Understand client requirements, technical challenges, infrastructure environments, and business objectives.
• Recommend appropriate cloud, DevOps, infrastructure, and deployment solutions.
• Support technical proposals, solution architecture, project scoping, effort estimation, and timelines.
• Present technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Business Development and Engineering teams to support opportunity qualification and project handover.

Required Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems and networking.
• Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or ELK/EFK.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and secure deployment practices.
• Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with cloud cost management and optimization across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Understanding of cloud pricing models, resource utilization, autoscaling, rightsizing, and cost-efficient architecture.

Client-Facing Skills

• Experience working with international clients in a technical capacity.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to conduct technical discovery and requirement-gathering discussions.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Confidence in presenting technical concepts and architecture to clients.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience supporting technical pre-sales, solution consulting, or client solutioning is preferred.
• Ability to explain cloud infrastructure costs, optimization opportunities, and technical trade-offs to clients in a clear and practical manner.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Experience with AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or Google GKE.
• Knowledge of GitOps practices.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Experience with cloud cost-management tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Trusted Advisor, Azure Cost Management, Google Cloud Billing, or similar platforms.
• Experience implementing FinOps or cloud cost-governance practices.
• Relevant AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certifications.
• Previous experience contributing to technical proposals or pre-sales activities