Sr. DevOps Tooling Admin
GSSTech Group · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
IT Services and IT Consulting · 201-500 employees
About the role
The role involves administering enterprise DevOps platforms and designing secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines to support application delivery. You will also automate infrastructure provisioning and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement DevSecOps best practices.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering with strong expertise in Kubernetes, Jenkins, and cloud platforms. Proficiency in automation scripting and infrastructure as code is essential for this hands-on engineering position.
Full description
We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Technology Engineering team supporting enterprise Technology Platforms & Compute initiatives. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in DevOps tooling administration, CI/CD platform engineering, infrastructure automation, container technologies, and cloud platforms.
The role involves managing enterprise DevOps platforms, implementing secure CI/CD pipelines, enabling application onboarding through automation, and working closely with Agile product teams to deliver highly available, scalable, and secure engineering platforms.
This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong experience across DevOps tooling, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud platforms, automation, monitoring, and platform operations.
Key Responsibilities• Install, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise DevOps tooling and platform services.
- Design, build, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines supporting application delivery across multiple environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment processes, and configuration management to ensure secure, scalable, and consistent environments.
- Support Agile delivery teams by enabling application onboarding through self-service automation and platform engineering.
- Collaborate closely with Development, Infrastructure, Security, Product, and Operations teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Implement and maintain DevOps and DevSecOps best practices across engineering teams.
- Build reusable Jenkins Shared Libraries, pipeline automation, and deployment workflows using Groovy and Python scripting.
- Integrate security and quality scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop and integrate APIs required for pipeline automation and platform services.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, application, deployment, and platform issues while supporting production and operational environments.
- Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and performance management solutions across enterprise platforms.
- Ensure compliance with infrastructure security standards and organizational engineering policies.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Continuously evaluate emerging DevOps technologies, automation practices, and platform engineering improvements.
Required Technical SkillsDevOps & CI/CD• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions.
- Strong expertise in Jenkins administration and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
- Experience developing Jenkins Shared Libraries.
- Pipeline automation using Groovy scripting.
- Python scripting for automation.
- Strong understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment.
- Experience integrating DevOps and DevSecOps tools into enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
DevOps Tool AdministrationHands-on administration and management experience with:
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Nexus Repository
- Nexus IQ
- SonarQube
- Checkmarx
- Sysdig
- Cosign
- JIRA
- Confluence
- ArgoCD
Container & Platform Engineering• Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Container-based deployments
- Container platform administration
- Application onboarding on container platforms
Infrastructure & Cloud• Strong infrastructure engineering knowledge.
- Systems administration experience.
- Infrastructure design and platform engineering.
- Infrastructure automation.
- Configuration management.
- Cloud platform administration.
Hands-on experience with one or more cloud platforms:
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Working knowledge of:
- Compute
- Storage
- Networking
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Hands-on experience with:
- Terraform
- Bicep
Monitoring & ObservabilityStrong experience with:
- ELK Stack
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Performance analysis
Security & DevSecOps• Infrastructure security best practices.
- Security tool integrations within CI/CD pipelines.
- DevSecOps implementation.
- Secure software delivery practices.
API & Automation• Experience developing APIs.
- API integrations within CI/CD pipelines.
- Automation scripting.
Required Competencies• Strong experience working within Agile and DevOps environments.
- Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Knowledge of Twelve-Factor Application principles.
- Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
- Ability to support both project delivery and production operations.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure while managing multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Self-driven with excellent ownership and accountability.
- Passion for learning new technologies and engineering practices.
Required Experience• 5+ years of overall DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering experience.
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps Engineering or Platform Engineering.
- Experience working in large enterprise environments supporting highly available, mission-critical platforms.
- Experience supporting high-volume production environments.
- Strong experience working in Agile product delivery teams.
Preferred Experience• Enterprise Platform Engineering.
- DevOps Platform Administration.
- Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.
- Banking or Financial Services domain experience.
- Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation initiatives.