Lead DevOps Engineer

Emerson Electric Company India Pvt Ltd; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance programs

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Emerson Electric Company India Pvt Ltd in Pune seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer to design, implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines, automate builds and deployments, and manage Azure, VMware, and container platforms. The role emphasizes IaC, security, and continuous improvement across multiple environments.

The candidate should bring 6–9 years of DevOps leadership experience, strong scripting skills, and hands-on expertise with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

Qualifications

• 6-9 years of experience as Lead DevOps Engineer responsible for design, maintain, and improve the systems and infrastructure used to build, package, and release enterprise software.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Shell, Batch scripting, or comparable languages.
• Knowledge of software development practices and object-oriented programming languages such as C#, C++, or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve robust CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient, reliable, and scalable software delivery.
• Automate software build, testing, packaging, deployment, release, and environment provisioning processes to improve quality, speed, and consistency.
• Maintain and optimize build, test, and deployment environments across multiple operating systems, platforms, and software configurations.
• Administer and support Azure, VMware vSphere, servers, virtual machines, storage, networking, and related infrastructure, ensuring security, availability, scalability, and performance.
• Manage and maintain DevOps tools and platforms, including source control, build, release, code quality, and artifact management solutions.
• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, static code analysis, software composition analysis, and quality gates into CI/CD workflows using tools such as Coverity and Black Duck.
• Support automated functional, integration, installation, upgrade, compatibility, and hardware-in-the-loop testing processes.
• Manage software artifacts, packages, dependencies, installers, certificates, software signing, and secure build and release credentials.
• Develop and maintain automation tools, scripts, and solutions using Python, Shell, and related technologies to improve developer productivity and reduce manual effort.
• Administer and support containerized platforms and workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives to standardize and automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health through logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions, driving operational excellence and system reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex build, deployment, infrastructure, networking, platform, and software configuration issues; perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures.
• Support application servers, web servers, middleware platforms, and related technologies.
• Define, implement, and promote DevOps standards, best practices, technical documentation, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to improve the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle and coordinate cross-functional issue resolution.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, release readiness activities, deployment validation, continuous improvement initiatives, and resolution of issues affecting software delivery.
• Evaluate, recommend, and introduce new DevOps, cloud, automation, infrastructure, and testing technologies to enhance platform capabilities and operational efficiency.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Python

PowerShell

Shell scripting

C#

Git

VMware vSphere

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Education

BE/B.Tech or M.Tech in CS/IT

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Lead DevOps Engineer In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve robust CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient, reliable, and scalable software delivery.
• Automate software build, testing, packaging, deployment, release, and environment provisioning processes to improve quality, speed, and consistency.
• Maintain and optimize build, test, and deployment environments across multiple operating systems, platforms, and software configurations.
• Administer and support Azure, VMware vSphere, servers, virtual machines, storage, networking, and related infrastructure, ensuring security, availability, scalability, and performance.
• Manage and maintain DevOps tools and platforms, including source control, build, release, code quality, and artifact management solutions.
• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, static code analysis, software composition analysis, and quality gates into CI/CD workflows using tools such as Coverity and Black Duck.
• Support automated functional, integration, installation, upgrade, compatibility, and hardware-in-the-loop testing processes.
• Manage software artifacts, packages, dependencies, installers, certificates, software signing, and secure build and release credentials.
• Develop and maintain automation tools, scripts, and solutions using Python, Shell, and related technologies to improve developer productivity and reduce manual effort.
• Administer and support containerized platforms and workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives to standardize and automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health through logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions, driving operational excellence and system reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex build, deployment, infrastructure, networking, platform, and software configuration issues; perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures.
• Support application servers, web servers, middleware platforms, and related technologies.
• Define, implement, and promote DevOps standards, best practices, technical documentation, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to improve the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle and coordinate cross-functional issue resolution.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, release readiness activities, deployment validation, continuous improvement initiatives, and resolution of issues affecting software delivery.
• Evaluate, recommend, and introduce new DevOps, cloud, automation, infrastructure, and testing technologies to enhance platform capabilities and operational efficiency.

Who You Are:

• B.E/B. Tech or M. Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related Engineering discipline.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• 6-9 years of experience as Lead DevOps Engineer responsible for design, maintain, and improve the systems, and infrastructure, used to build, package, and release enterprise software
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Shell, Batch scripting, or comparable languages.
• Knowledge of software development practices and object-oriented programming languages such as C#, C++, or similar technologies.
• Experience with source control systems and branching strategies using Git, SVN, or equivalent version control platforms.
• Hands-on experience managing Windows Server and Windows-based build, test, and application environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere, ESXi, virtual machines, templates, and automated environment provisioning.
• Understanding and practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and tools including NUnit, VSTest, Ranorex, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with build, packaging, and dependency management tools such as MSBuild, Visual Studio toolchains, NuGet, InstallShield, Artifactory, and related repository solutions.
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, including querying and analyzing build, test, and operational data.
• Understanding of software quality practices, static code analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), secure software supply chain principles, and application security controls.
• Experience with code signing, digital certificates, secrets management, credential security, and secure release processes.
• Working knowledge of networking, storage, backup, server infrastructure, and related enterprise platform technologies.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience using APIs and modern automation techniques to integrate development, testing, infrastructure, and operational systems.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools, coding assistants, and agent-based engineering workflows.

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

• Understanding of software release management, installation testing, upgrade validation, backward compatibility testing, and multi-version release support.
• Experience supporting enterprise, desktop, embedded, industrial, hardware-integrated, or multi-product software environments across multiple teams, operating systems, and release branches.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across software, operating systems, infrastructure, networking, virtualization, and CI/CD platforms.
• Ability to create technical documentation and communicate complex technical solutions effectively with development, QA, and engineering teams

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow.

We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives- because we know that great ideas come from great teams.

Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive.

Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact.

We believe diverse teams working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing.

We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance plans, Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more.

Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.

WHY EMERSON

At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable.

And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.

We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems - for our customers, our communities, and the planet.

You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs.

We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large.

We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.

At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do.

So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.

ABOUT EMERSON

Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability. With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety. We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson.

Experience Level Senior Level