Engineering Team Lead at Teknowlege

TeKnowledge - We are building an AI-Native Engineering team and seeking an Engineering Team Lead to lead the DevOps strategy, platforms, and practices across the enterprise. This role ensures development and operations teams are supported with the right tools, pipelines, and automation to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable systems. The DevOps Lead drives a culture of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and operational excellence while aligning with enterprise engineering governance and compliance standards.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineering Team Lead

Job ID: 2026-17478
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Responsibilities
Strategy & Leadership:

• Define and execute the DevOps strategy and roadmap for the enterprise.
• Champion a DevSecOps culture, embedding security and compliance into every stage of the SDLC.
• Partner with engineering managers, architects, and product leaders to improve delivery velocity, resilience, and platform reliability.
• Lead modernization initiatives such as cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.

Platform & Delivery Enablement:

• Own and manage CI/CD pipelines, build/release processes, and automation frameworks.
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and logging frameworks are in place for all applications and services.
• Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Oversee the deployment and scaling of systems across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Manage platform reliability practices (SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs).

Governance, Risk & Compliance:

• Ensure DevOps practices comply with security, regulatory, and data protection standards.
• Implement disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response frameworks.
• Govern access management, secrets management, and secure configuration management.
• Align DevOps operations with enterprise ITIL and GRC frameworks.

Leadership & People Development:

• Lead, coach, and mentor DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and automation specialists.
• Foster a culture of automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Develop career pathways and succession planning for DevOps talent.
• Encourage knowledge sharing, cross-training, and innovation across DevOps teams.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management:

• Collaborate with engineering, QA, and security managers to deliver end-to-end platform reliability.
• Manage relationships with cloud providers, DevOps tooling vendors, and third-party partners.
• Represent DevOps in architecture boards, engineering forums, and executive updates.
• Drive cost optimization and value realization from cloud and DevOps investments.

Qualifications
Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (mandatory).
• Postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSc in IT/Engineering) – advantageous.
• Professional Certifications (preferred/required): AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer; Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD); Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef); Security/Compliance certifications (CISSP, CISM, cloud security); Agile/SAFe certifications (Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner).

Experience:

• 8–12 years’ experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure roles, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership capacity.
• Proven experience building and scaling DevOps practices in enterprise or fintech environments.
• Hands-on expertise with CI/CD, automation, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and monitoring tools.
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures and hybrid cloud platforms.
• Experience implementing SRE practices, observability, and incident response frameworks.
• Familiarity with regulated industries (banking, fintech, telecom, healthcare) preferred.

Core Skills & Competencies:

• Deep expertise in DevOps tools, cloud infrastructure, and automation practices.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with a proven ability to grow high-performing DevOps teams.
• Excellent knowledge of security, compliance, and governance in DevOps.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to balance innovation, speed-to-market, and operational stability.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
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