DevOps Lead (Kafka & IBM DataStage)

Quick Facts

• Role: DevOps Lead (Kafka & IBM DataStage)

Description

The DevOps Lead provides technical leadership to ensure stability and continuous improvement of complex enterprise environments, with a hands-on approach to systems, configurations, deployments, and technical challenges. The role focuses on proactive monitoring, incident resolution, automation to reduce manual operations, and enhancements to reliability, resilience, and recoverability. You will also support and improve CI/CD and deployment processes, observability, and technical dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for environment stability, platform health, and continuous improvement

• Work hands-on with environments, configurations, deployments, and troubleshooting

• Drive proactive monitoring, health checks, and early identification of technical issues

• Lead resolution of complex L3 platform and environment-related incidents

• Identify recurring technical problems and drive permanent solutions and automation

• Improve reliability, resilience, and recoverability of environments

• Reduce manual operational activities through automation

• Support and improve CI/CD and deployment processes

• Coordinate technical upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation

• Support system and environment configuration

• Improve monitoring, logging, and observability

• Support management of certificates, service accounts, and technical dependencies

• Collaborate with Development, Application Management, and Infrastructure teams

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to System Team members

Requirements

• Strong experience maintaining complex enterprise environments

• Practical experience with IBM MDM, DataStage, Kafka, WAS, or IBM IIDR/CDC

• Solid Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills

• Understanding of CI/CD methodologies

• Experience with automation and technical improvements