Lead DevOps Engineer, ITC

About the role

Nike is looking for an ambitious Lead DevOps Engineer to join its Finance & Procurement team in Karnataka, reporting to the Engineering Manager. The role works with peer software engineers, product managers and principal engineers to build, maintain and scale cloud-native software, and involves leading architectural decisions and mentoring teammates.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain applications and microservices across the full stack, data governance and platform observability
• Lead architectural decisions, technical strategy and feature planning
• Work with product managers and engineers to define requirements and specifications, and explain designs to technical teams
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and run performance optimization across the stack
• Take part in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives
• Mentor teammates, contribute to documentation and help troubleshoot production issues
• Develop AI and machine learning solutions tailored to specific use cases

Required profile

• 7-10 years of experience in software development
• Strong foundation in distributed microservice architecture, domain-driven design and RESTful services
• Proven ability to deliver API-first services at scale
• Experience building end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to build, test and deploy to AWS environments such as Lambda, EC2, ECS and EKS
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment and communicate clearly with product and technical teams

Required skills

• Python, Node.js, Java and SQL
• Terraform and CloudFormation for infrastructure as code
• Nice to have: React, GitHub, JIRA, Jenkins, Confluence, Splunk, SignalFx, VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and AI/ML experience