Role Overview :

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for architecting, automating, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment processes across microservices and data platforms. The role requires deep knowledge of Kubernetes (OKD/EKS) and hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for enterprise-scale delivery automation, observability, and governance.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, ensuring reliable build, test, and deployment automation across environments.

- Manage containerized applications on Kubernetes (OKD/EKS), ensuring scalability, security, and resilience.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or CloudFormation, integrating with AWS and hybrid systems.

- Collaborate with Developers, Cloud Architects, and Security teams to standardize environment configurations and deployment workflows.

- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Dynatrace.

- Set up and enforce security controls, secret management, and RBAC within Kubernetes and DevOps pipelines.

- Manage artifact repositories, container registries, and pipeline templates for multi-project consistency.

- Drive cost optimization, autoscaling, and disaster recovery strategies for production clusters.

- Contribute to DevSecOps adoption and continuous improvement of automation maturity.

Technical Skills :

Mandatory :

- Kubernetes (EKS/OKD) administration and troubleshooting.

- Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML-based), Git branching, and release orchestration.

- Terraform / CloudFormation for Infrastructure-as-Code.

- Docker, Helm, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD / Flux).

Good to Have :

- AWS stack (ECR, ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch).

- ELK / Dynatrace / Prometheus / Grafana for observability.

- Experience with secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).

- Familiarity with Blue-Green / Canary deployments, feature flags, and pipeline security gates.

Experience :

- 8-12 years of experience in DevOps and automation engineering.

- Minimum 3 years of experience managing Kubernetes (EKS/OKD) in production.

- Proven experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and cloud-native CI/CD architecture.

- Exposure to fintech, banking, or high-availability production systems preferred.