Devsecops Engineer

Nielseniq India; Pune District, Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

NielsenIQ India is seeking a hands-on Senior DevSecOps Engineer to design, automate, secure, and operate cloud-native delivery platforms. You will partner with development, operations, and security teams to improve deployment speed, platform reliability, and production resilience across Azure and Kubernetes environments.

You will design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, operate production Kubernetes clusters, provision Azure infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, and implement GitOps

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, cloud, SRE, or related fields.
• 5+ years Kubernetes and production cloud experience.
• Strong Azure experience including AKS, ACR, Key Vault, Entra ID, Monitor, Log Analytics.
• Advanced skills in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Linux, Git, Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with secure deployment pipelines, GitOps workflows, automated testing, and rollback.
• Strong scripting using Python, Bash, PowerShell and Groovy; REST API integration.
• Knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, ingress, load balancing, cloud networking, and connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Operate production Kubernetes environments and perform upgrades.
• Provision and manage Azure infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible.
• Implement GitOps with Flux and ensure auditable promotion across environments.
• Build observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts.
• Lead incident response, post-incident reviews and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with devs, ops, security, and product teams.

Skills

DevOps

Kubernetes

Azure

Terraform

Linux

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Automation

Python

Bash

Tools

Flux

Ansible

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

NGINX

Apache

Kubernetes

Job description

RoleSummary:

NIQ is seeking a hands-on Senior DevSecOps Engineer to design, automate, secure, andoperatecloud-native delivery platforms. The role partners with development, operations, and security teams to improve deployment speed, platform reliability, and production resilience across Azure and Kubernetes environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, quality gates, approvals, artifact promotion, deployment verification, and automated rollback.
• OperateproductionKubernetes environments, cluster upgrades, Helm/Kustomizedeployments, ingress, autoscaling, workload identity, RBAC, network policies, resource controls, and troubleshooting.
• Provision and manage Azure infrastructure through reusable Terraform modules and Ansible automation.
• ImplementGitOps-based delivery using Flux andmaintainconsistent, auditable promotion across integration, qa, staging, and production environments.
• Build observability across applications, infrastructure, Kubernetes, and pipelines using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
• Embed security into the software supply chain throughsecretsmanagement, least-privilege access, SAST/SCA,IaCand container scanning, SBOMs and vulnerability remediation.
• Lead production incident response and root-cause analysis;maintainrunbooks, conduct post-incident reviews, and drive corrective actions.
• OptimizeAzure and Kubernetes performance and capacity;
• Work directly with code engineers to provide guidance and resolve issues, in alignment with the DevOps engineering standards.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud, SRE, infrastructure, or software engineering, including ownership of production systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes and cloud environments in production.
• Strong Azure experience, including AKS, ACR, Key Vault, Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Services,networking,private endpoints, managed identities, storage, and load-balancing services.
• Advanced experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Linux, Git, Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions, and artifact/container repositories.
• Experience implementing secure deployment pipelines,GitOpsworkflows, deployment strategies, automated testing, and rollback controls.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell and Groovy; experienceintegrating platforms through REST APIs.
• Solid knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, reverse proxies, ingress, load balancing, cloud networking, and application connectivity.
• Ability to lead complex initiatives, troubleshoot across the full stack, communicate clearly, and collaborate across engineering, operations, security, and product teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Java application delivery knowledge, including JVM troubleshooting, Maven or Gradle, packaging, runtime configuration, and deployment patterns.
• Experience with Flux, Ansible, Apache, NGINX, Oracle Database connectivity, CIAM platforms.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana,OpenTelemetry or equivalent tooling.

Role Expectations

This is a hands-on individual-contributor role.The engineer is expected to write and review infrastructure and pipeline code, troubleshoot production systems,participatein deployments, take actions on incidents and work closely with the development teams.