Job Title: DevOps Lead 

Location: Foster City, CA

Duration: 10 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $79/hour (C2C)

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Lead to drive enterprise-scale DevOps transformation and adoption across engineering teams. The role will focus on defining the DevOps roadmap, modernizing CI/CD and engineering practices, improving developer experience, and driving measurable improvements in software delivery performance.

 Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the DevOps transformation roadmap, aligned with engineering and business priorities.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, shift-left testing, platform engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
• Lead DevOps culture and change-management initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Establish and track DORA metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR.
• Lead initiatives around toolchain optimization, automation, developer experience, and process re-engineering.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and drive resolution of technical and delivery impediments.
• Govern resource plans, delivery priorities, risks, and vendor relationships.
• Facilitate technical workshops, retrospectives, executive reviews, and DevOps communities of practice.
• Provide clear transformation status and recommendations to client and internal leadership.

 Required Skills

• 12+ years of technology delivery, program, DevOps, or transformation experience.
• Proven experience leading DevOps, cloud, Agile, or engineering transformation at enterprise scale.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD architectures, cloud-native engineering, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and SRE.
• Working knowledge of modern DevOps ecosystems such as GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding and application of DORA engineering metrics.
• Experience working with Agile and SAFe-based enterprise delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex engineering concepts into clear business outcomes.

Preferred Profile

A hands-on, transformation-oriented DevOps leader who can operate at both strategy and execution levels, influence engineering teams, establish governance and standards, and accelerate DevOps maturity across a large enterprise environment.