About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a DevOps Automation Platform Engineer based in India.
Responsibilities
- Help shape and advance DevOps automation and AI-enabled engineering initiatives across the organization.
- Own and evolve the GitLab foundation, including repository standards, pipeline configuration, deployment practices, and governance.
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve development and deployment efficiency.
- Standardize and coordinate unit, integration, and security testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Plan, coordinate, communicate, and monitor application releases, updates, and deployment activities.
- Maintain the health, stability, and performance of automation and orchestration applications, plugins, pipelines, and functions.
- Define and document infrastructure and environment requirements across cloud, virtualized, and physical deployment models.
- Establish patterns, policies, and standards for the safe implementation and deployment of AI-assisted automation.
- Partner with Security and Risk teams to continuously assess and strengthen the organization’s security posture.
- Collaborate with global systems, NOC, engineering, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and coordinate deployments.
- Contribute to platform management plans, automation standards, and continuous improvements across the DevOps environment.
Requirements
- 10–15 years of professional IT experience, ideally with significant exposure to DevOps, platform engineering, software engineering, or network automation.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), CI/CD pipelines, release management, and modern engineering practices.
- Hands-on experience with software and network automation, infrastructure management, and platform engineering.
- Strong Python development and automation skills.
- Practical experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with Ansible and Terraform for configuration and infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of Jinja and Django or comparable templating and application frameworks.
- Strong understanding of Docker and containerization technologies.
- Experience with monitoring platforms; familiarity with Netreo is an advantage.
- Knowledge of network management platforms such as Nautobot or NetBox is a plus.
- Network engineering experience is desirable, particularly in environments involving automated infrastructure and orchestration.
- Experience working with geographically distributed or international teams is advantageous.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate technical requirements into practical solutions.
- A proactive, collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for automation, emerging technologies, and continuous improvement.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- DevOps certification, particularly AWS or Azure, is desirable.
Conditions
- Full-time position with opportunities across India, including Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Noida, and remote India.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work within a global technology organization operating across multiple countries.
- Exposure to large-scale automation, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, network engineering, and AI-assisted technologies.
- Opportunities for professional growth, personal development, and technical learning.
- Potential opportunities to relocate internationally as personal circumstances and business needs evolve.
- Collaborative environment with exposure to global engineering, systems, NOC, security, and business teams.
- Opportunity to contribute to strategic platform modernization and automation initiatives.