Harness Enablement Engineer

Alike Thoughts; Hyderabad, Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Alike Thoughts seeks a seasoned DevOps migration expert for Hyderabad/Chennai to drive end-to-end XL Release to Harness migration and modernize Bitbucket to GitHub repositories. You will build reusable automation, templates, and governance frameworks across engineering and platform teams.

You will design migration playbooks, deliver hands-on enablement workshops, and establish KPIs to track adoption, pipeline stability, and security posture. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps engineering, platform migration, CI/CD modernization, or tooling ownership.
• Hands-on experience with Harness, XL Release, GitHub, and Bitbucket, including pipeline migration, workflow redesign, and repository governance.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to refine training materials, provide training sessions and prepare documentations.
• Experience designing and delivering technical enablement workshops, labs, migration guides, and team onboarding programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead XL Release to Harness migration lifecycle from assessment to cutover.
• Migrate Bitbucket repositories, projects, pipelines and permissions to GitHub with minimal disruption.
• Deliver hands-on enablement programs and create templates, checklists, and migration guides.
• Define and manage KPIs for migration programs and drive adoption and continuous improvements.

Skills

Migration proficiency

Version control expertise

CI/CD engineering

Scripting proficiency

API & webhook knowledge

Tools

Harness

XL Release

GitHub

Bitbucket

Job description

YOE: 5 to 8 Years

Location: Hyderabad/Chennai

Employment Type - Full-time

Role Summary

Were seeking a DevOps tools migration expert specializing in largescale orchestration, tools and repository modernization initiatives. The primary responsibility of this role is to lead the endtoend migration from XL Release to Harness, ensuring seamless pipeline transition, aligning with enterprise standards. Youll adhere with migration roadmap, build reusable frameworks, develop automation and partner closely with engineering and platform teams to operationalize Harness across the organization

Key Responsibilities

1) DevOps Tooling Migration Expertise

• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for migrating XL Release pipelines to Harness, leading the full lifecycle from assessment to cutover.
• Experience in handling legacy XL Release orchestrations, workflows, approvals, and dependencies; design equivalent or enhanced Harness pipelines, templates, triggers, and governance models.
• Use migration tooling and automation scripts to execute large-scale orchestration, integration with CI/CD workflow transformation.
• Stay updated on Harness platform enhancements, security features, roadmap items, and integration capabilities; maintain accurate guidance and documentation.

2) DevOps Repository Modernization

• Lead the enterprise migration of Bitbucket repositories, projects, pipelines, and permissions to GitHub, ensuring minimal disruption to product teams.
• Analyze existing Bitbucket configurations (branching strategies, access models, pipelines) and define optimized GitHub repository structures, branch protection rules, and GitHub Actions workflows.
• Develop detailed migration playbooks, runbooks, pipeline translation guides (Bitbucket Pipelines - GitHub Actions), and versioncontrol best practices.

3) Migration Enablement, Training & Upskilling

• Build and deliver hands‑on enablement programs for both Harness and GitHub migrations, including workshops, sandbox sessions, labs, and office hours
• Create comprehensive documentation such as templates, checklists, quick‑start guides, pipeline patterns, migration scorecards, and role‑specific learning paths.
• Establish continuous feedback loops to refine training materials and identify needs for automation, templates.

4) Insights, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Define and manage KPIs for both migration programspipeline conversion rates, repository migration progress, workflow success rates, stability metrics, platform adoption, and security posture improvements.
• Analyze platform usage, workflow efficiency, deployment patterns, and error hotspots to recommend optimizations.Establish and enforce governance frameworks around GitHub repository hygiene, branching standards, policy enforcement, Harness pipeline security, and compliancedriven workflows

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps engineering, platform migration, CI/CD modernization, or tooling ownership
• Hands‑on experience with Harness, XL Release, GitHub, and Bitbucket, including pipeline migration, workflow redesign, and repository governance.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to refine training materials, provide training sessions and prepare documentations.
• Experience designing and delivering technical enablementworkshops, labs, migration guides, and team onboarding programs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading large‑scale DevOps or CI/CD transformation initiatives, tool consolidation, or enterprise migration programs.
• Knowledge of GitHub Actions, Harness governance, security best practices, and version‑control standards.
• Familiarity with analytics/reporting tools (Power BI, dashboards, platform usage insights) for migration tracking and adoption metrics.
• Proven ability to work across engineering, security, platform, and business teams, driving alignment and adoption.

Core Skills & Competencies

• Migration proficiency: pipeline redesign, workflow mapping, integration patterns
• Version control expertise: repo migration, branching models, security standards.
• CI/CD engineering: YAML workflows, automation, pipeline optimization and secrets.
• Scripting proficiency: Python, Bash, PowerShell for automation and migration tooling
• API & webhook knowledge: Harness APIs, GitHub REST APIs, automation triggersRole & responsibilities

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Sree vidya

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