Senior DevOps Engineer

With a global team of 5600+ IT professionals, DHL IT Services

connects people and keeps the global economy running

by continuously innovating and creating sustainable digital solutions . We work

beyond global borders and push boundaries across

all dimensions of logistics . You can

leave your mark shaping the

technology backbone of the biggest logistics company of the world. Our locations, Malaysia, Czech Republic and India earned the

#GreatPlaceToWork certification, reflecting our commitment to exceptional employee experience.

Grow together Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously improve cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, enabling consistent and automated environment provisioning.
• Implement, optimize, and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring smooth and reliable delivery workflows.
• Operate and enhance Kubernetes clusters, including deployment strategies, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Manage and optimize Elastic Search and Confluent Kafka deployments for performance, reliability, and cost.
• Strengthen platform security through patching, vulnerability mitigation, backup strategies, and proactive risk analysis.
• Drive operational excellence by defining, executing, and improving resiliency procedures, including disaster recovery simulations and incident response drills.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure smooth integration of applications into production environments
• Ensure best practices for cloud security and compliance are followed across all environments
• Monitor system health using Prometheus → Grafana stack and implement automated alerting and remediation.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, applications, and integrations, collaborating with SMEs and vendor support when needed.
• Evaluate and recommend open-source technologies, especially when licensing, support, or ecosystem changes occur.
• Promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams, mentoring developers on infrastructure patterns, automation, and cloud-native principles.
• Document new solutions and maintain existing documentation, ADRs

Core Requirements & Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps/SRE experience operating production systems at scale.
• Deep practical expertise with Microsoft Azure (networking, compute, storage, identity, security).
• Strong proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Solid experience running and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters (AKS preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Elastic Search and Confluent Kafka in production environments.
• Strong automation mindset with scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, alerting, and observability.
• Strong understanding of platform security: patching, secrets management, RBAC, network security, identity; PKI basics (certificates, chain of trust)
• Networking basics: TCP/IP, DNS, segmentation, routing, troubleshooting
• Experience designing and executing resiliency, DR, and failover procedures.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems across infra, networking, and application layers.
• Comfortable evaluating and integrating open-source technologies, including assessing licensing and support risks.
• Experience with cost optimization and cloud governance.
• Excellent communication skills and a passion for sharing knowledge with engineering teams about infrastructure and cloud-native patterns.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-500, AZ-400) or equivalent cloud credentials.
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification.
• Kubernetes certification (CKA, CKS)
• Familiarity with SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).
• Experience with open-source governance, license evaluation, and community-driven tooling.

Ready to embark on the journey? Here’s what we are looking for: As a Senior DevOps Engineer, having experience with MS Azure environment is a huge plus. Very good knowledge of Elastic Search will also be an integral part of this role. You are a technology aficionado, therefore you have a good understanding of

Terraform, Kubernetes . You are able to work independently, prioritize and organize your tasks under time and workload pressure. Working in a multinational environment, you can expect cross-region collaboration with teams around the globe, thus being advanced in spoken and written English will be certainly useful.

An array of benefits for you:

• Annual Leave – 42 days off apart from Public / National Holidays
• Medical Insurance - Self + Spouse + 2 children. An option to opt for Voluntary Parental Insurance (Parents / Parent -in-laws) at a nominal premium covering preexisting diseases
• In House training programs - professional and technical training certifications
• Flexible Work options