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Bangalore, India Office, India
Onsite
Job Description: DevOps Team Lead
Position Summary
The DevOps Team Lead is responsible for leading a team of DevOps engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks. This role provides technical leadership, ensures adherence to engineering and DevOps standards, drives cross team collaboration, and supports continuous improvement of delivery processes.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead, mentor, and support a team of DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and career development.
• Own the planning, execution, and quality of DevOps initiatives across multiple product teams.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.
• Collaborate closely with Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Product Engineering, and Security teams.
• Establish and enforce DevOps best practices, including IaC, Git workflows, observability, and release processes.
• Drive adoption of standardized DevOps frameworks, automation patterns, and governance.
• Oversee configuration and management of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), container platforms, and deployment systems.
• Embed DevSecOps practices by integrating security scanning (SAST, SCA, secrets scanning), dependency checks, container scanning, and policy-as-code into pipelines.
• Monitor team workload, define priorities, and ensure delivery within established timelines.
• Track metrics such as deployment frequency, pipeline reliability, MTTR, and environment stability.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence.
• Flexible to work in shifts
Required Skills & Qualifications
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Automation.
• 2+ years leading a technical team or managing engineering deliverables.
• Strong hands on experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud technologies (primarily Azure).
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, and containerization.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation, Pulumi etc.).
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Deep understanding of modern DevOps practices: GitOps, monitoring, logging, and security automation.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience implementing monitoring/observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, App Insights, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications
• Certifications in cloud (Azure preferred) or DevOps.
• Experience supporting globally distributed teams.
Benefits
• Hybrid working arrangements (3 days WFO in a week)
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Health insurance
• 6x Flexi: knock 2.5 hours off your day on anyday
About Us
From the day we opened our doors, MRI Software has built flexible, game-changing real estate software that powers thriving communities and helps make the world a better place to live, work and play. Fulfilling that mission is only possible because of one thing: exceptional people. People like you!
Our people-first approach to PropTech is defining a new industry standard for client experiences that, quite frankly, can’t be duplicated. Experiences that deliver real value every day. And we know those experiences begin with our people.
We believe MRI is more than just a workplace; it’s a connected community of people who truly feel they belong. Whether we’re investing in employee resource groups or providing tailored resources for each person to reach their full potential, we’re passionate about creating a work environment that makes you excited to show up every single day.
At MRI, one of our core values is to strive to amaze. From the intelligent solutions we create to the culture we cultivate, that’s our goal every day. Because that’s what industry leaders do. Whether you’re joining as a new Pride member or rejoining us after a short time away, your talent is vital to us, our partners and our clients.
Amazing growth requires amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge?
We know confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you!
MRI is proud to be an inclusive employer. We welcome and celebrate diversity across all backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, military, veteran status and more.
We believe that Belonging is a direct result of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Those values are woven into the fabric of who we are and are foundational to our continued success. Come and see for yourself!