Lead DevOps Engineer

IDR is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to join one of our top clients for an opportunity in Brentwood, TN. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD to help scale and modernize a high-traffic digital commerce platform. You’ll partner closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to improve deployment reliability, automation, and overall production stability. Position Overview for the Lead DevOps Engineer: Lead the design, buildout, and support of highly available cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms in Microsoft AzureOwn and standardize CI/CD pipelines (including reusable/shared workflows) to improve consistency and speed of delivery Support and optimize Kubernetes (AKS) environments, including deployments, ingress, autoscaling, and production troubleshooting Drive root-cause analysis across application, infrastructure, networking, and security layers to resolve complex production issues Improve operational efficiency by automating manual processes with infrastructure-as-code and scripting Requirements for the Lead DevOps Engineer:8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, or related roles, including leading technical initiatives Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in large-scale production environments (including AKS) Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and GitHub Actions (including standardized/reusable pipelines) Strong Kubernetes troubleshooting skills (scaling, networking, configuration, deployments) and experience with Helm and container technologies Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform and scripting (Bash and/or Python)