Lead DevOps Engineer

Posted:
1/8/2026, 12:22:43 AM

Location(s):
Karnataka, India ⋅ Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Calling all originals: At Levi Strauss & Co., you can be yourself — and be part of something bigger. We’re a company of people who like to forge our own path and leave the world better than we found it. Who believe that what makes us different makes us stronger. So add your voice. Make an impact. Find your fit — and your future.

Summary of the role:

You will be a part of Levi’s Enterprise Cloud Services organization which engineers, implements, and manages the technology required to run a cloud-based technology across the enterprise.

This is a unique opportunity for someone who is passionate about applying cloud technologies and DevOps practices to solving business problems in a unique and innovative way and to help accelerate our digital business transformation.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer in the Enterprise Cloud Services organization, you will be part of an establishment that is growing is a Cloud Ops and DevOps team that are focused on designing and delivering cloud solutions to support business requirements.

About the role:

  • Responsible for overseeing work assigned to the DevOps Team during Agile Planning

  • Responsible for overseeing developers and operations engineers to create and maintain the cloud infrastructure in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment

  • Contribute to strategic planning for cloud solutions

  • Develops and maintains service capacity forecasts, responsible for the day-to-day capacity and proactive management of services.

  • Proactively monitors cloud-based service offerings as they move through development, continuous integration, and pre-production, in addition to production itself.

About you:

  • Ideal candidate should have 9+ years of prior experience in developing automation with DevOps tools for IT infrastructure such as:  network, server, hypervisor, IaaS, etc.*

  • Responsible for managing a growing global cloud and DevOps team

  • 3+ years successfully designing and implementing successful DevOps solutions in a multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Private Cloud, etc).*

  • +3 years managing DevOps tools such as:  Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, Artifactory, Jenkins, etc.*

  • Create, maintain and automate DevOps pipelines; Continuously improve automated build, test and deployment workflows.*

  • Design and implement service catalog and service enablement automation, DevOps automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelining, automated delivery models (blue-green, canary, etc.), tagging frameworks and best practices.

  • Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions to push our capabilities forward, getting ahead of our business needs, getting people incentivized to transform, innovate and continually improve.

  • Ensure the quality and performance of the platform through fully automated functional and performance testing.

  • Ensure deployment framework is tightly integrated across all workstreams and follows standard processes.

  • Support production and development systems in a constantly evolving environment of integrated systems; responsible for training other employees on tools

  • Write and maintain technical documentation and requirements related to DevOps technologies

Minimum Education Required:  Bachelor’s Degree in technology field

Technical Certifications highly preferred:   Public Cloud Certification(s), DevOps tools certification

Years and Type of Experience Required:

  • Expert experience implementing and supporting two or more of the following toolsets: Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, XL Release, Artifactory, GitHub, Continuum

  • Must have experience in Cloud Administration

  • Minimum 3 years’ experience managing cloud operations team.

  • Experience designing DevOps pipelines and architecture

  • Ability to participate in fast-paced DevOps and Engineering teams within Scrum agile processes

  • Experience consulting with business process and functional unit owners

  • Basic knowledge of querying and organizing data

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

  • Motivated, result oriented self-starter, curious and inquisitive

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

  • Prepare and present findings, recommendations, reports, spreadsheets, new operating models, and new workflows to all levels of leadership

  • Creates methodology to measure process performance against established metrics

  • Maintain knowledge and proficiency of best practices in Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

  • Fundamental knowledge of managing hybrid cloud environments, private and public clouds.

  • DevOps Product set including: Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform

  • Experience with SDLC, Agile, ITIL

  • Knowledge of Operating Systems

  • Experience with Microsoft PowerBI a plus

Complexity and Accountability:

  • Self-managed and motivated individual with strong communication skills

  • Ability to perform basic project manager functions

  • Must have experience with creating reports with Excel Pivottables and spreadsheets, PowerBI a plus.

  • Business professional who can communicate with nontechnical stakeholders  

  • Must be willing to accept advice from other team members and stakeholders

  • Must be flexible to change and understand that the end-result is the required aim

  • Must be able to acquire new skills rapidly and leverage them to implement automation

  • Must possess the ability to manage cross function team initiatives

Key partners & Interaction:

  • Internal:  Technology Teams, HR, Corporate Communications, Brands, Retail

  • External (if applicable): Managed Services partners, Hardware vendors, Software vendors

Benefits:
We put a lot of thought into our programs to provide you with a benefits package that matters. Whether it is for medical care, taking time off, improving your health or planning for retirement, we've got you covered.

Here's a small snapshot:

  • Complimentary preventive health check-up for you & your spouse

  • OPD coverage

  • Best in class leave plan including paternity & family care leaves

  • Counselling sessions to prioritize mental well-being

  • Exclusive discount vouchers on Levi’s products

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to empowering individuals from all walks of life to achieve their professional goals with us, regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, or genetic information. We actively seek and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including those with disabilities, and offer accommodations throughout the selection process upon request.

To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. 

LOCATION

Bengaluru, India

FULL TIME/PART TIME

Full time

Current LS&Co Employees, apply via your Workday account.

Levi Strauss & Co.

Website: https://www.levistrauss.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1853

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Apparel ⋅ Fashion ⋅ Lifestyle ⋅ Retail