Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a hands on Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, cloud native platforms that enable secure and efficient application delivery. This role focuses on Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms, GitOps driven CI/CD workflows, and automation across OCP, Azure and GCP. The ideal candidate is passionate about developer enablement, infrastructure as code, and building resilient, self service platforms using modern automation and cloud technologies.

What we are expecting:

Hands on DevOps and platform engineering expert driving DevOps transformation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and GitOps based delivery models.

Designed and enabled end to end DevOps workflows, integrating infrastructure automation with CI/CD pipelines (GitOps / GitHub Actions) to support microservices deployment at scale.

Automated microservices deployments across Kubernetes and OCP environments, achieving 100% deployment automation using Harness, reducing manual errors, and significantly improving release speed and reliability.

Implemented GitOps workflows using declarative configurations and JSON/YAML based pipelines, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and auditability across environments.

Enabled cloud native platform delivery across Azure and GCP, aligning infrastructure, application deployment, and security controls through code.

Embedded DevSecOps practices, observability, and pipeline instrumentation to improve visibility into pipeline performance, failures, and operational trends, accelerating troubleshooting and reducing MTTR.

Developed automation and tooling using Python, integrating with CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment workflows.

Established centralized version tracking and release visibility, improving governance, traceability, and consistency across global data centers and cloud platforms.

Strong collaborator focused on developer enablement, self service platforms, and continuous delivery excellence through pragmatic, production grade engineering.

Intake Top Skills:

5+ years experience

GitHub Actions

Java builds experience (preferably Maven/Gradle)

Deployment tool experience (preferably Harness)

Python builds/CICD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment)

Kubernetes/OCP

Should have worked in a large scale regulated industry and exposed to DevOps in those orgs.

Need to be aware of governance controls, audits, etc.

Nice to Have:

Automation frameworks (Ansible/Terraform PFE)

AI agentic frameworks

Kubernetes certification

DevOps certification

Bachelor's in Engineering/Compsci

This team handles Devsec OPS automation for full COO technology portfolio. These positions will help with one or two apps of the 18 in the portfolio. Will start with the OTA Agile to Automation app, preferably CICD, deployments orchestrations, and quality gates. Should have right approach. Challenge has been a lot of tooling is available, but learning those used by Wells Fargo is required. Top technologies that this person will be working with include Gitops and Gitactions, Harness (for deployments), Maven (Java builds), Gradle (Java builds), Python builds. New position on the team due to increased workload. Hoping that the hire will be able to sync with the local team's schedules for 2 of their in-office days per week.

EEO: "Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans."