Senior DevOps Engineer

Ness Digital Engineering; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ness Digital Engineering is seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join our Hyderabad/Bangalore teams in a hybrid role. You will manage multi-environment platforms, drive automation, and lead DevOps, DevSecOps, and AIOps initiatives across engagements.

With 10+ years in IT and a strong engineering mindset, you will collaborate with stakeholders, accelerate transformation, and contribute to case studies, PoCs, and capability building for Ness customers.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years in the IT industry.
• Strong background in DevOps, automation, and platform engineering.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and DevSecOps.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm and related infra tooling.
• Proven leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Identify automation opportunities and implement solutions to optimize efficiency and productivity.
• Improve engineering practices and maturity across client organizations.
• Lead engineering transformation initiatives leveraging DevOps/DevSecOps/AIOps capabilities.
• Conduct maturity assessments and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Engage clients and delivery teams to drive automation and best practices.

Skills

DevOps

Automation

Agile

AIOps

Leadership

Communication

Education

AWS/Azure/DevOps certifications

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Rancher

Helm

ArgoCD

JFrog Artifactory

Veracode

Blackduck

Splunk

Selenium

AppDynamics

GitHub Actions

Jira

OpsGenie

Job description

Devops
Hyderabad/Bangalore (Hybird)
Experience
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our
organization. As the DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in managing multiple
environments, platform engineering tools and technologies, working on integration
and implementation, and management of the Intelligent Engineering Practice
strategy, initiatives and drive transformation engagements. This includes areas such as
DevOps, DevSecOps, Agile, and AIOps. The ideal candidate should possess a strong
background in DevOps, application and infra-automation, process improvement, and
engineering maturity improvements, with a deep understanding of engineering
principles. Additionally, you will be responsible for driving community-building events
focused on case studies, training, proof of concepts (PoCs), and more.

Role DevOps Engineer

Location India

Total years of Experience

Over 10 years in the IT industry

Required Technical Expertise

• Overall software engineering process and tools
• Prod and other higher environments operations working closely with
  ProdOps and EnvOps team
• Should have worked with Kakfa Infra setup and automation
• DevOps experience – CI/CD (Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory,ArgoCD,
  Harness, SonarQube)– tools and processes, DevSecOps (Veracode,
  Blackduck)
• Should have worked with Rancher and Kubernetes including Helm
  Charts Infra setup and automation
• Should have worked with Platform Engineering tools and technologies
• Should have worked with Splunk/Splunk AI Infra setup and automation
  along with Vantage dashboard (good to have knowledge or experience)
• Should have strong understanding on ITSM processes
• Should have work on IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Hands on DevOps leader who comes from technology background
  (Agile, DevOps, AIOps) and can also talk about technology with different
  stakeholders and create interest in solving a specific business problem.
• Work assigned US day shift (EST/CST 8 AM – 6 PM) or US night shift
  (EST/CST 6 PM – 6 AM) rotations to provide 24/7 operational coverage
  including weekend rotation as required
• Experience in developing new capabilities and accelerators.
• Believe cultural and behavior changes are critical for improving teams
  of all sizes.
• Believe in continuous improvement through small, rapid,
  iterative change
• Are a passionate, hands‑on change agent that believes teamwork and
  communication are critical to high performing team function
• Are in constant quest of learning and apply that to tools, technologies,
  and processes.
• Are a smart, enthusiastic, creative leader who can look beyond today's
  problems to find tomorrow's solutions
• Strong background in automation technologies, such as
  DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE,Agile, and AIOps. Familiarity with tools and
  frameworks in these areas is highly desirable.
• Solid understanding of process improvement methodologies and their
  application in engineering practices.
• Engineering mindset with a focus on driving maturity improvements in
  engineering practices across the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in building and leading high-performing
  teams.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to align practice initiatives with
  business goals and objectives.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities. Proficient in analyzing
  complex engineering challenges and identifying effective solutions.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to engage
  and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the
  organization.
• Results‑oriented
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment
• Experience with at least 4-5 large customers
  on Engineering transformations (Agile, DevOps, Product Engineering)
• In-depth knowledge of a particular area, such as Continuous
  Integration, Continuous Delivery, Automated Quality Testing, Software
  Configuration Management and Automated Platform provisioning
• Certified AWS/Azure/DevOps professional
• Hands on experience with some of the common industry leading
  CI/CD/CT tools like for example Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions,
  Harness, ArgoCD, AWS DevOps Services, OpsGenie, Rancher,
  Jira, xMatters, xRay , QMetry, Hp QTP. Harness.io, AppDynamics, Selenium,
  Cucumber etc.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Identify automation opportunities and implement solutions to optimize
  efficiency and enhance productivity
• Apply an engineering mindset to improve the maturity of engineering
  practices across the client organization. Define frameworks, best practices,
  and standards to elevate engineering capabilities and ensure consistent
  quality in project delivery.
• Continuous Learning and Innovation: Stay updated with emerging
  trends, tools, and methodologies in the field of intelligent engineering.
  Proactively identify new opportunities for innovation and leverage cuttingedge technologies to drive value for the organization.
• Strategize and execute engineering transformation initiatives for
  Ness customers by leveraging DevOps/DevSecOps/AIOps capabilities
• Be able to conduct agile, DevOps maturity assessments, provide
  recommendations and implement the recommendations
• Provide thought leadership in areas of agile, DevOps through white
  papers, blogs
• Identify & implement appropriate technologies & tools to solve clients'
  problems related to build, test, release, deploy and operate to improve
  overall engineering maturity for existing and new Ness customers
• Engage clients in issue resolution/ decisions and drive alternatives with
  thoughtful leadership and automation experience
• Identify and implement tools/ services that can help the engineering
  team to produce better software/ services more efficiently and
  provide recommendations
• Provide technical and technology direction for problem definition,
  analysis, requirements development, and implementation of complex
  solutions by making automation related recommendations for existing and
  new customers.
• Generate innovation and continuous improvement ideas for various
  projects and engagements
• Work with delivery teams to identify and recommend improvement
  opportunities by leveraging process maturity model and assessment toolkit
• Advise on existing project/engagement improvements, optimization, or
  maintenance efforts in the following specialties: continuous integration,
  continuous build, test automation, monitoring, automation, risk
  management, software life-cycle management and development
  methodologies, selfheal solutions, AI/ML enabled automation, Chatbots
  implementation.
• Leads in the analysis of technical requirements of applications to
  ensure systems provide required availability, latency, scalability and
  efficiency.
• Provide guidance on cloud native devops implementation and
  best practice

Good to have Past experience in creation of multiple SRE dashboards is an added advantage