Senior Devops Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and scale our infrastructure automation, cloud/on-prem provisioning, and CI/CD ecosystem. You will work across the full infrastructure lifecycle — from network and subnet design, VM/compute provisioning, and Kubernetes platform operations, to building resilient Jenkins pipelines and managing source control governance on Azure Repos. This is a hands-on senior role for someone comfortable owning infrastructure-as-code end-to-end and mentoring a small team.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Provisioning & Network Planning

• Design and manage VM provisioning workflows across virtualization platforms (ESXI , VMware/vSphere) and/or cloud, including template management, sizing, and lifecycle governance.

• Plan and manage IP address management (IPAM), subnetting, VLAN allocation, and knowledge of CIDR design across data centers/regions, ensuring no overlap and proper reservation controls

• Kubernetes & Container Platform

• Own Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management — provisioning, upgrades, namespace governance, ingress configuration, and RBAC across environments.

• Automate application deployments to Kubernetes using Helm charts, Argo Cd

• Troubleshoot cluster-level and workload-level issues across compute, networking, and storage layers.

• CI/CD & Automation

• Design, build, and maintain robust Jenkins pipelines (declarative/scripted) for build, test, and multi-environment deployment automation.

• Manage source control strategy, branching policies, and pipeline integration on Azure Repos (or equivalent Git platforms).

• Build Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/Ansible for repeatable, auditable provisioning of VMs, networks, and Kubernetes resources.

• Implement policy-as-code (e.g., OPA/Rego) for provisioning guardrails, with testing and staged rollout practices.

• Platform Reliability & Governance

• Maintain CMDB/CSDM-aligned configuration tracking for infrastructure CIs (VMs, clusters, subnets, services).

• Define monitoring, alerting, and incident escalation paths for infrastructure drift, IP conflicts, and pipeline failures.

• Drive documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-sharing across the DevOps/Platform team.

• Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor junior/mid-level DevOps engineers and review their automation code and pipeline designs.

• Partner with application, security, and network teams to translate requirements into scalable automation.

• Participate in architecture reviews and provide input on platform roadmap decisions.

Required Skills & Experience

• DevOps/Infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 3+ years in a senior/lead capacity.

• Strong hands-on experience with VM provisioning on ESXI , VMware/vSphere, Nutanix, KVM, or equivalent hypervisors.

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: subnetting, VLANs, CIDR planning, IPAM, static/DHCP IP assignment.

• Production experience managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS/on-prem) — deployments, namespaces, RBAC, ingress, troubleshooting.

• Strong experience building and maintaining Jenkins pipelines (Groovy/declarative) for CI/CD.

• Hands-on experience with Azure Repos (or Git/GitHub/GitLab) — branching strategies, pull request workflows, pipeline integration.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform and/or Ansible.

• Scripting proficiency: Bash, Python, or PowerShell.

• Familiarity with policy-as-code tools (OPA/Rego) and CMDB/CSDM concepts is a plus.

• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent).

• Strong understanding of secrets management (Vault or equivalent) and security best practices in pipelines.

• Working experience on SRE or Devops agents.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid (on-prem + cloud) environments.

• Experience with ServiceNow or similar ITSM/CMDB platforms.

• Certifications: CKA, Terraform Associate, or equivalent cloud/infra certifications.

Soft Skills

• Strong ownership mindset — comfortable driving platform decisions independently.

• Ability to mentor and review the work of junior engineers.

• Clear written and verbal communication for cross-team collaboration (App, Security, Network teams).

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving infrastructure environment.