DevOps Lead

We are seeking an experienced Team Lead to lead the DevOps team. Along with the deployment and runtime systems, the DevOps team is also responsible for the CI/CD pipelines and the core infrastructure of the Trading platform. As a Team Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage our production environment globally — combining hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight to drive operational excellence. Responsibilities and Duties: - Lead, mentor, and train DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous learning. - Drive the DevOps strategy, technical roadmap and execution across our global trading production environment, ensuring system uptime, scalability, and performance. - Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery. - Lead improvements in automation, deployment workflows, and monitoring systems, reducing manual effort and increasing system robustness and agility. - Ensure production readiness for new exchanges, trading strategies, and infrastructure changes, coordinating across development, trading, and infrastructure teams. - Represent the team in leadership forums, advocating for production priorities, and aligning team objectives with broader business goals. Qualifications: - University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. - 10+ years work experience in a DevOps, Systems Engineering or similar role and proven success leading technical operations, SRE, or production engineering teams in real-time or low-latency environments. - Modern deployment system and orchestration experience and associated CI/CD tooling. - Strong development skills in Python, Golang and shell scripting. - Demonstrated experience defining and managing SLAs/SLOs, with a data-driven approach to improving reliability and performance. - Comfortable leading incident response in high-pressure scenarios and building systems that prevent recurrence. - Exposure to high-frequency trading or low-latency financial systems is a strong plus. - Skilled communicator who can align business and technical stakeholders, provide clarity under pressure, and drive cross-functional collaboration. - Passionate about coaching, developing, and retaining top engineering talent. - Fluency in written and spoken English. Originally posted on Himalayas