R&D DevOps Engineer – GPQSS Digital- IDC

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The opportunity

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to design build automate and operate secure scalable and reliable engineering platforms that enable development teams to deliver cloud-native applications faster and with higher quality. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Azure AKS Kubernetes Docker Terraform Helm Azure DevOps GitOps observability and platform automation.

This role requires strong ownership of developer experience infrastructure automation cloud operations security-by-design and platform reliability. The candidate will collaborate with architects developers DevOps engineers cybersecurity teams product teams and business stakeholders to establish reusable platform capabilities standards and self-service solutions across the software delivery lifecycle.

How youll make an impact:

• Design build and maintain internal developer platforms that provide reusable services templates pipelines and automation for application teams.
• Create and manage cloud-native platform components on Azure AKS Kubernetes Docker and container registries.
• Standardize CI/CD pipeline templates using Azure DevOps for build test security scanning deployment and release automation.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Helm Ansible or similar tools to provision and manage consistent environments.
• Enable GitOps and configuration-driven deployment practices for repeatable auditable and scalable platform operations.
• Build self-service capabilities for developers including environment provisioning deployment templates monitoring dashboards and operational runbooks.
• Improve platform reliability through observability logging metrics alerting SLOs incident analysis and continuous operational improvements.
• Integrate platform security controls including secrets management container security dependency scanning image scanning and policy enforcement.
• Support DevSecOps practices by integrating tools such as SonarCloud Black Duck MetaDefender or equivalent security and quality gates into delivery pipelines.
• Implement authentication authorization API gateway ingress service mesh and secure connectivity patterns for platform services.
• Partner with application teams to troubleshoot deployment performance networking availability and operational issues.
• Define platform standards reusable architecture patterns documentation and best practices to improve developer productivity and governance.
• Evaluate and introduce automation AI-assisted development and platform engineering improvements that reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery.

Your background

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in DevOps cloud engineering platform engineering infrastructure automation or cloud-native application delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure AKS Kubernetes Docker Helm container registries and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Strong experience in Azure DevOps pipeline design YAML pipelines release automation branching strategies and reusable pipeline templates.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Ansible Helm ARM/Bicep or equivalent tools.
• Good understanding of platform engineering concepts such as developer portals golden paths self-service automation reusable templates and paved-road standards.
• Experience with GitOps tools and practices such as Argo CD Flux or equivalent configuration-driven deployment approaches.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK Azure Monitor Application Insights or similar platforms.
• Good understanding of networking ingress controllers DNS certificates load balancing API gateways and secure service-to-service communication.
• Experience with secrets management identity access control OAuth JWT OpenID Connect Keycloak Azure Key Vault or equivalent solutions.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps secure SDLC threat modeling vulnerability management dependency scanning image scanning and compliance readiness.
• Experience supporting event-driven or distributed systems using Kafka RabbitMQ background jobs or similar integration patterns is an advantage.
• Good understanding of application architecture microservices REST Core Angular or full stack development concepts is an advantage.
• Strong analytical troubleshooting automation and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex platform and production issues.
• Strong communication collaboration ownership documentation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently guide engineering teams and drive adoption of platform standards and best practices.
• Proficiency in English both speaking and writing.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot is an advantage.

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