Senior DevOps Engineer

Devops
Hyderabad/Bangalore (Hybird)
Experience
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our
organization. As the DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in managing multiple
environments, platform engineering tools and technologies, working on integration
and implementation, and management of the Intelligent Engineering Practice
strategy, initiatives and drive transformation engagements. This includes areas such as
DevOps, DevSecOps, Agile, and AIOps. The ideal candidate should possess a strong
background in DevOps, application and infra-automation, process improvement, and
engineering maturity improvements, with a deep understanding of engineering
principles. Additionally, you will be responsible for driving community-building events
focused on case studies, training, proof of concepts (PoCs), and more.
Role DevOps Engineer
Location India
Total years of
Experience
Over 10 years in the IT industry
Required
Technical
Expertise
Deep expertise in following Software Engineering areas:
· Overall software engineering process and tools
· Prod and other higher environments operations working closely with
ProdOps and EnvOps team
· Should have worked with Kakfa Infra setup and automation
· DevOps experience – CI/CD (Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory,ArgoCD,
Harness, SonarQube)– tools and processes, DevSecOps (Veracode,
Blackduck)
· Should have worked with Rancher and Kubernetes including Helm
Charts Infra setup and automation
· Should have worked with Platform Engineering tools and technologies
· Should have worked with Splunk/Splunk AI Infra setup and automation
along with Vantage dashboard (good to have knowledge or experience)
· Should have strong understanding on ITSM processes
· Should have work on IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible
· Hands on DevOps leader who comes from technology background
(Agile, DevOps, AIOps) and can also talk about technology with different
stakeholders and create interest in solving a specific business problem.
· Work assigned US day shift (EST/CST 8 AM – 6 PM) or US night shift
(EST/CST 6 PM – 6 AM) rotations to provide 24/7 operational coverage
including weekend rotation as required
· Experience in developing new capabilities and accelerators.
· Believe cultural and behavior changes are critical for improving teams
of all sizes.
· Believe in continuous improvement through small, rapid,
iterative change
· Are a passionate, hands-on change agent that believes teamwork and
communication are critical to high performing team function
· Are in constant quest of learning and apply that to tools, technologies,
and processes.
· Are a smart, enthusiastic, creative leader who can look beyond today's
problems to find tomorrow's solutions
· Strong background in automation technologies, such as
DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE,Agile, and AIOps. Familiarity with tools and
frameworks in these areas is highly desirable.
· Solid understanding of process improvement methodologies and their
application in engineering practices.
· Engineering mindset with a focus on driving maturity improvements in
engineering practices across the organization.
· Demonstrated experience in building and leading high-performing
teams.
· Strategic thinking with the ability to align practice initiatives with
business goals and objectives.
· Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Proficient in analyzing
complex engineering challenges and identifying effective solutions.
· Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to engage
and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the
organization.
· Results-oriented
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment
· Experience with at least 4-5 large customers
on Engineering transformations (Agile, DevOps, Product Engineering)
· In-depth knowledge of a particular area, such as Continuous
Integration, Continuous Delivery, Automated Quality Testing, Software
Configuration Management and Automated Platform provisioning
· Certified AWS/Azure/DevOps professional
· Hands on experience with some of the common industry leading
CI/CD/CT tools like for example Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions,
Harness, ArgoCD, AWS DevOps Services, OpsGenie, Rancher,
Jira, xMatters, xRay , QMetry, Hp QTP. Harness.io, AppDynamics, Selenium,
Cucumber etc.
Roles &
Responsibilities
· Identify automation opportunities and implement solutions to optimize
efficiency and enhance productivity
· Apply an engineering mindset to improve the maturity of engineering
practices across the client organization. Define frameworks, best practices,
and standards to elevate engineering capabilities and ensure consistent
quality in project delivery.
· Continuous Learning and Innovation: Stay updated with emerging
trends, tools, and methodologies in the field of intelligent engineering.
Proactively identify new opportunities for innovation and leverage cuttingedge technologies to drive value for the organization.
· Strategize and execute engineering transformation initiatives for
Ness customers by leveraging DevOps/DevSecOps/AIOps capabilities
· Be able to conduct agile, DevOps maturity assessments, provide
recommendations and implement the recommendations
· Provide thought leadership in areas of agile, DevOps through white
papers, blogs
· Identify & implement appropriate technologies & tools to solve clients'
problems related to build, test, release, deploy and operate to improve
overall engineering maturity for existing and new Ness customers
· Engage clients in issue resolution/ decisions and drive alternatives with
though leadership and automation experience
· Identify and implement tools/ services that can help the engineering
team to produce better software/ services more efficiently and
provide recommendations
· Provide technical and technology direction for problem definition,
analysis, requirements development, and implementation of complex
solutions by making automation related recommendations for existing and
new customers.
· Generate innovation and continuous improvement ideas for various
projects and engagements
· Work with delivery teams to identify and recommend improvement
opportunities by leveraging process maturity model and assessment toolkit
· Advise on existing project/engagement improvements, optimization, or
maintenance efforts in the following specialties: continuous integration,
continuous build, test automation, monitoring, automation, risk
management, software life-cycle management and development
methodologies, selfheal solutions, AI/ML enabled automation, Chatbots
implementation.
· Leads in the analysis of technical requirements of applications to
ensure systems provide required availability, latency, scalability and
efficiency.
· Provide guidance on cloud native devops implementation and
best practice
Good to have · Past experience in creation of multiple SRE dashboards is an added
advantage