LeadDevOpsEngineer(m/f/d)

## Accountabilities Lead the design and implementation of automated infrastructure provisioning pipelines to manage large-scale bare-metal environments across global data centers, ensuring consistency, reliability, and scalability. Build and maintain infrastructure automation systems using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef to enable standardized and repeatable deployments. Oversee operations, monitoring, and incident response, including security monitoring, system recovery, and resolution of hardware and software failures in high-availability environments. Manage infrastructure maintenance activities such as OS patching, system upgrades, performance tuning, capacity optimization, and lifecycle management of distributed systems. Ensure observability and system health through monitoring and alerting platforms, leveraging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and related observability stacks. Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize system performance, including load balancing, network tuning, and low-latency architecture improvements. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and contribute to scaling DevOps practices, operational excellence, and cross-team collaboration. Requirements 8+ years of experience in DevOps, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, or site reliability engineering roles in large-scale distributed environments. At least 2+ years of proven experience in technical leadership or team management roles. Strong hands-on expertise in Linux/Unix systems administration, scripting (Shell, Python, or Java), and SQL. Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef for managing large-scale systems. Deep understanding of networking concepts including L4/L7 load balancing (HAProxy, Nginx) and TCP/IP performance optimization. Strong experience with CI/CD and orchestration tools such as Jenkins, Airflow, or similar platforms. Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometh