Senior DevOps Engineer - CI / CD Pipeline

Job Description :

We are hiring an experienced Individual Contributor (IC) to join our DevOps engineering team supporting enterprise-grade platforms across cloud and hybrid infrastructure.

The role demands deep expertise in cloud provisioning (primarily Azure), CI / CD automation, Kubernetes container orchestration, observability integration, and production reliability operations.

The candidate must have strong hands-on experience working across the full DevOps lifecycle from environment setup and infra-as-code scripting to troubleshooting production issues.

Comfort with scripting, toolchain integration, and infrastructure security is expected. Prior experience in BFSI or regulated environments will be a Skills & Required Depth Cloud Infrastructure :

• Independently provisioned core Azure services VMs, VNets, storage accounts, NSGs, load balancers using ARM / Bicep templates or CLI. Has configured hybrid connectivity, resource locks, and tagging standards. Familiar with IAM roles, service principals, and key vault (Azure DevOps / Jenkins) :
• Built and maintained pipelines supporting code build, artifact versioning, multi-stage deployment, test execution, and rollback logic. Experience with gated check-ins, pipeline-as-code (YAML), and integration of security scans. Has diagnosed pipeline failures and optimized for (Kubernetes / Docker) :
• Created Dockerfiles and Helm charts for application packaging. Deployed microservices to AKS or self-managed K8s clusters.
• Familiar with resource quotas, pod autoscaling, rolling deployments, readiness / liveness probes, and service mesh basics.
• Able to troubleshoot deployment and ingress as Code (Terraform / Ansible) :
• Authored modular Terraform configurations with environment-specific variables. Handled remote state, resource dependency graphs, and drift detection. If using Ansible, has implemented idempotent playbooks with custom roles and inventory (Bash / PowerShell / Python) :
• Written automation scripts to support log rotation, backup orchestration, cleanup tasks, and validation hooks.
• Able to handle conditional logic, error trapping, logging, and parameterization in at least one scripting language.
• Scripts used in CI / CD hooks or bootstrapping (Monitoring & Alerting) :
• Integrated monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or ELK stack.
• Configured scrape jobs, alert rules, dashboard templates, and escalation policies.
• Experience with APM tools (e.g., New Relic, AppInsights) or log parsing for incident Troubleshooting (Linux / Windows) :
• Proactively debugged failures in distributed systems involving containers, networks, services, or virtual machines.
• Familiar with analyzing event logs, journald / syslog, system metrics, and application error traces.
• Has led or supported root cause analysis (RCA) Control (Git) :
• Proficient in Git workflows (feature branches, squash merges, tagging, and rebasing).
• Experienced in managing code repositories, branch protection rules, and resolving conflicts during parallel development.
• Has integrated version control into CI & Incident Response :
• Participated in rotation-based support.
• Has handled priority incidents, performed triage, updated stakeholders, and restored services under pressure.
• Experience with incident runbooks, war room participation, and postmortem Skills Directory & On-Prem Infra :
• Exposure to managing AD domains, DNS zones, DHCP, and file services in a Windows Server environment.
• Has integrated AD with cloud IAM (e.g., Azure AD Connect).
• Basic understanding of group policy objects (GPOs) and OU Certifications :
• Possession of certifications such as Microsoft Certified : Azure DevOps
• Engineer Expert or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer adds value but is not required.
• Demonstrates structured learning and validation of Design & Dashboards :
• Involved in defining observability KPIs, selecting relevant metrics, configuring long-term retention, and templating dashboards for engineering use.
• Experience correlating logs, metrics, and traces Background or Build System Knowledge :
• Experience integrating CI / CD pipelines with build systems like Maven, Gradle, MSBuild, or npm.
• Understanding of versioning, dependency resolution, and build caching strategies. Exposure to unit / integration test execution in / DR Tooling :
• Familiarity with enterprise backup solutions (e.g., Veeam, Commvault) or Azure Site Recovery.
• Has assisted in defining RPO / RTO targets, restoring data snapshots, or participating in DR drills for production systems.

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