Principal Engineer Software Engineering XIII

Senior DevOps Engineer

Next Generation Monitoring (NGM) Platform - Vertiv IT Systems | Pune, Maharashtra

Experience: 8-12 Years - Band: Senior Engineer (IC) - Department: Software Engineering - IT Systems - Reports To: Engineering Manager

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to own the engineering delivery infrastructure - CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, multi-deployment packaging, release management, security automation, and platform observability. The engineer will support on-premises, cloud-native (AWS/GCP/Azure), hybrid edge-cloud, and air-gapped deployment targets across a multi-year, multi-release product roadmap.

CI/CD Pipeline Engineering

- Design, build, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines for all microservices with independent deployment cycles

- Implement multi-stage pipelines: build test security scan package deploy across all environments

- Integrate automated unit, integration, and system-level tests; manage all pipeline configuration as code

- Configure branch-based promotion strategies (dev staging production)

Container Orchestration & Infrastructure

- Manage containerized deployments via Docker and Kubernetes on Linux and Windows Server

- Provision and manage Kubernetes clusters (dev, staging, production) with horizontal pod autoscaling

- Configure service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) for inter-service mTLS; manage container image registry lifecycle

- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible for cloud and on-premises resources

Multi-Deployment Operations

- Build on-premises Docker/Kubernetes deployment automation for Linux and Windows Server targets

- Develop cloud-native automation for AWS, GCP, and Azure (EKS/GKE/AKS) including multi-region config

- Engineer hybrid edge-cloud pipelines; package air-gapped artefact bundles for offline/classified environments

- Implement zero-downtime rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and automated rollback strategies

Release Management

- Orchestrate software releases across the multi-release product roadmap; coordinate cross-functional readiness

- Manage versioning, release tagging, changelog generation, and artefact storage across all microservices

- Produce deployment runbooks, release notes, and rollback procedures for each release milestone

Security & Compliance Automation

- Integrate SAST, DAST, container image scanning (Trivy/Snyk/Clair), and dependency vulnerability checks

- Automate SBOM generation, open-source license compliance, and software supply chain tracking

- Configure secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), TLS certificate automation, and PKI for microservices

- Implement pipeline controls for SOC 2, EU Cyber Resilience Act, and FedRAMP readiness

Monitoring, Observability & Reliability

- Deploy centralized logging (ELK/Loki), metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), and distributed tracing (Jaeger)

- Configure Kubernetes cluster monitoring, pod health dashboards, and alerting/on-call integration

- Drive proactive reliability engineering to meet high-availability platform SLA targets

Automation & Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Create Bash/Python automation for infrastructure operations, environment provisioning, and self-healing

- Interface with software architects, developers, QA, and product management on delivery and planning

- Guide development teams on DevOps best practices, containerization patterns, and pipeline design

Infrastructure & Platform: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS) production admin (5+ yrs) - Docker & Kubernetes (Helm, RBAC, autoscaling) - Service mesh: Istio/Linkerd - Windows Server 2019+ for on-premises targets

CI/CD & Version Control: GitLab CI/CD administration & pipeline YAML (5+ yrs) - Multi-service microservices pipelines - Artefact management: GitLab, ECR, GCR, ACR - GitOps with Helm chart management

Cloud & Multi-Deployment: AWS, GCP, or Azure (multi-cloud preferred) - EKS/GKE/AKS auto-scaling & multi-region - Hybrid edge-cloud - Air-gapped offline artefact packaging - Terraform & Ansible (5+ yrs)

Development & Automation: Advanced Bash & Python scripting - YAML/JSON for Kubernetes manifests & Helm - REST API automation - Go (Golang) familiarity for microservices platform context

Security & Compliance: Container scanning: Trivy, Snyk, or Clair - SAST/DAST pipeline integration - SBOM: Syft/CycloneDX - HashiCorp Vault - TLS/PKI automation - SOC 2, EU CRA, FedRAMP pipeline controls

Monitoring & Observability: ELK/EFK, Loki, or Splunk - Prometheus & Grafana (production-grade) - Distributed tracing: Jaeger/Zipkin - Kubernetes cluster monitoring - SLA reliability metrics

- Cloud certifications: AWS DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps, or Azure DevOps Expert

- CKA/CKAD, Kubernetes operator development, and service mesh deep expertise

- GitOps tooling: ArgoCD or Flux for continuous delivery

- SRE practices: error budget management, chaos engineering (LitmusChaos, Chaos Monkey)

- Time-series DB operations: InfluxDB or TimescaleDB backup, scaling, schema migration

- Message broker management: Kafka or NATS cluster operations and monitoring

- Edge node provisioning, remote management, and telemetry collection from distributed agents

- Internal Developer Platform (IDP) tooling and developer self-service workflows

- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or related field

- Minimum 8 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering

- 5+ years of Linux system administration in production environments (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS)

- 5+ years of Docker and Kubernetes container orchestration in production

- 5+ years of CI/CD pipeline management (GitLab CI preferred)

- 5+ years of cloud platform deployments: AWS, GCP, or Azure

- Proven track record delivering end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures

- Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)

- Experience integrating security and compliance tooling into DevOps workflows

- Strong problem-solving and root-cause analysis in complex distributed systems

- Clear written and verbal communication for cross-functional engineering collaboration

- Proactive ownership mindset with a strong bias toward automation over manual operations

- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced agile product development environment

- Team collaboration and informal DevOps culture leadership; comfort with ambiguity

Education: B. E. / B. Tech / M. E. / M. Tech in Computer Science, IT, or related field. Cloud/DevOps certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS/GCP/Azure) are a plus.