DEVSECOPS ARCHITECT L1(CONTRACT)

Job Description

Job Title: Senior DevOps Lead

Location: London, UK

Experience: 15 Years

Role Overview

Looking for a highly accomplished Senior DevOps Lead with 15 years of IT experience to lead enterprise-wide DevOps transformation across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
The ideal candidate will combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution and possess exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities
Enterprise DevOps Strategy & Governance
• Define, drive, and govern enterprise DevOps roadmap and maturity model.
• Establish DevSecOps practices aligned with compliance and audit requirements.
• Standardize CI/CD, release governance, environment strategy, and automation frameworks across business units.
• Lead cloud transformation initiatives across multi-cloud environments.

CI/CD & Azure DevOps Architecture
• Architect complex, scalable CI/CD pipeline ecosystems in Azure DevOps/Jenkins
• Define branching strategies, release workflows, artifact management, and environment promotion models.
• Implement automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, and compliance validation.
• Optimize pipeline performance, reusability, and governance at scale.

Multi-Cloud & Infrastructure Leadership
• Hands-on architecture and delivery experience across multiple CSP's. Azure is a must.
• Design resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized hybrid cloud solutions.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation).
• Lead containerization and orchestration strategy (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and observability frameworks.

DevOps for COTS Platforms
• Establish DevOps frameworks for enterprise COTS applications including Salesforce, Temenos, IBM enterprise suites, Snowflake etc.
• Design CI/CD automation, versioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines for packaged systems.
• Implement environment provisioning and release orchestration strategies specific to COTS platforms.
• Integrate COTS solutions with enterprise DevSecOps toolchains.

Toolchain Expertise
Extensive hands-on experience with most or all of the following:
• Source Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• IaC & Configuration: Terraform, ARM Templates, Ansible, CloudFormation
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Security: SAST/DAST tools, secrets management, container security
• Artifact Management: Nexus, Artifactory

Leadership & Communication
• Lead, mentor, and scale DevOps and platform engineering teams.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Present technical strategy and architecture to executive stakeholders.
• Drive cultural shift toward automation, CI/CD, and continuous improvement.
• Define KPIs, SLAs, and performance metrics for DevOps effectiveness.
Required Qualifications
• 15 years of IT experience with at least 8 years in DevOps leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in Azure DevOps/Jekins pipeline architecture and governance.
• Proven multi-cloud implementation experience.
• Demonstrated experience implementing DevOps for enterprise COTS platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
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Mandatory Skills: DevOps .

Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: Wipro-143942

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-03-12T18:52:50