Senior Harness Consultant

Ascendion; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking a Senior Harness Consultant in Bengaluru to design and optimize Harness pipelines, review CI/CD processes, and drive measurable value through reliable, automated deployments across large enterprise environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, evaluate migrations from ADO/TFS to Harness, implement robust release strategies, and ensure observability, security controls, and governance across on-prem and cloud platforms including Kubernetes, Docker, Helm,

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting Harness pipelines in enterprise environments.
• Deep knowledge of Harness CD, CI, pipeline templates, connectors, delegates, environments, services, infrastructure definitions, approvals and failure strategies.
• Experience with GitHub, Git-based workflows, branching strategies, artifacts and container registries.
• Strong CI/CD fundamentals, YAML, scripting, API integrations and pipeline automation.
• Experience with Azure Container Apps, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and ON PREM + cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Knowledge of secrets management, RBAC, security controls, auditability and enterprise deployment governance.
• Ability to interpret pipeline execution logs and troubleshoot integration and deployment failures.

Responsibilities

• Harness Platform Assessment, implementation, optimization.
• CI/CD Pipeline Review.
• ADO / TFS vs Harness Evaluation.
• Business Value and ROI Assessment.
• Observability and Release Reliability.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Advisory.

Skills

Harness CD/CI

Pipeline templates

GitHub workflows

CI/CD fundamentals

YAML scripting

Azure/AWS cloud platforms

Kubernetes & Docker

Secrets management & RBAC

Log interpretation & troubleshooting

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

GitHub

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

ADO/TFS

Job description

Senior Harness Consultant Key Responsibilities:

1. Harness Platform Assessment, implementation, optimisation
2. CI/CD Pipeline Review
3. ADO / TFS vs Harness Evaluation
4. Business Value and ROI Assessment
5. Observability and Release Reliability
6. Stakeholder Engagement and Advisory

Mandatory Technical Skills

• - Strong, hands-on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting and optimizing Harness pipelines in enterprise environments.
• - Deep knowledge of Harness CD, CI, pipeline templates, connectors, delegates, environments, services, infrastructure definitions, approvals and failure strategies.
• - Experience with GitHub, Git-based workflows, branching strategies, artifacts and container registries.
• - Strong CI/CD fundamentals, YAML, scripting, API integrations and pipeline automation.
• - Experience with Azure Container Apps, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and ON PREM + cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• - Knowledge of secrets management, RBAC, security controls, auditability and enterprise deployment governance.
• - Ability to interpret pipeline execution logs and troubleshoot integration and deployment failures.

Preferred Skills

• - Harness GitOps, feature flags, cloud cost management or security modules, where relevant to the client's licensed scope.
• - Experience integrating deployment verification with enterprise observability platforms.
• - Experience assessing large-scale ADO/TFS-to-Harness or comparable CI/CD migrations.
• - Familiarity with DORA metrics, SRE practices, FinOps and technology business cases.(optional)
• - Harness certifications or verifiable advanced training, where available and relevant.