DevOps Engineer

Position: DevOps & Release Engineer

Experience: 7-9 years

Employment Type: Fulltime

Location: Ahmedabad

Compensation: Upto 16 LPA

Immediate Joiners

Role overview

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps & Release Engineer to lead and optimise our software delivery lifecycle. The role will be responsible for designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, release planning, deployment automation, environment governance, and DevOps controls to ensure secure, reliable, and efficient software releases.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in modern cloud-native delivery practices, release governance, automation frameworks, security integration, and cross-functional collaboration with development, QA, infrastructure, and product teams.

Key responsibilities

CI/CD and deployment automation

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate build, test, deployment, and rollback processes.
• Standardise deployment practices across multiple applications and environments.
• Improve deployment frequency, reliability, and lead time through automation.

Release planning and management

• Own end-to-end release planning and execution activities.
• Coordinate release schedules with product, engineering, QA, and operations teams.
• Manage release readiness reviews and deployment checklists.
• Ensure timely and controlled releases with minimal business disruption.

Environment management

• Establish and maintain development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Define environment provisioning and configuration standards.
• Monitor environment health, stability, and availability.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption where applicable.

DevSecOps governance

• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement static and dynamic security scanning, vulnerability management, and compliance checks.
• Ensure adherence to security, regulatory, and organisational standards.
• Collaborate with security teams to address risks and remediate findings.

Release governance and compliance

• Define release policies, approval workflows, and deployment standards.
• Conduct release risk assessments and change reviews.
• Maintain audit trails and release documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement in release management processes and metrics.

Production support and rollback planning

• Develop rollback and disaster recovery procedures for critical releases.
• Lead release monitoring and post-deployment validation activities.
• Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.
• Establish deployment success metrics and monitoring dashboards.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7-9 years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
• Hands-on experience in deployment automation and release orchestration.
• Experience managing complex multi-environment deployments.
• Strong understanding of Azure cloud platform 
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Experience integrating security scanning and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.
• Strong understanding of change management, release governance, and operational risk management.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience implementing SRE and platform engineering practices.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Datadog, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.
• Relevant certifications such as:
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
• Azure Administrator / Azure Solutions Architect
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• AWS DevOps Engineer
• DevSecOps certifications