Senior Lead DevOps Engineer (8-12 yrs)

Airtel Digital; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel Digital in India is seeking an experienced DevOps leader to analyze, design, and implement scalable automation and CI/CD across services. You will mentor teams, architect pipelines, and drive platform modernization across our development cycles.

The role requires hands-on expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, and monitoring stacks. You will partner with engineering and operations to ensure reliable deployments, rapid delivery, and strong governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development with a strong automation mindset.
• Build and maintain highly scalable, large scale deployments globally
• Strong understanding of version control (git), branching & merging strategies, and build setup.
• Should have good understanding in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Should have an understanding of CI/CD and DevOps tools like Jenkins/Jenkins Pipelines, Nexus etc
• Programming and scripting abilities across a range of languages e.g. Ruby, Java, Go, Python, etc.
• Experience with build automation tools such as Maven
• Monitoring and Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Nagios / appdynamics, ELK, Prometheus).
• Good Experience of distributed systems RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis etc.

Responsibilities

• Review existing DevOps strategies and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Ideate, Solution, Present & Roll out ‘best-fit’ DevOps solution that takes into account customer & end-user needs while accounting for the tooling preferences & commercial landscape
• Gather requirements, design, and implement new DevOps strategies and architect overall, comprehensive and efficient practices.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipeline by enabling suitable DevOps channels across the organization.
• Design and write build scripts in scripting languages like perl, shell, or python.
• Design process/schedule to deliver completed development to various environments.
• Verify successful continuous delivery deployments to various environments.
• Design org and branching strategies and maintain version control repositories.
• Monitor and review continuous delivery validation build for failures.
• Guide developers and operations teams in case of an issue and resolve deployment issues with the team.
• Seek out and understand new technologies which can play a key role in the near future direction of our system, designed using modern technologies and approaches to provide orchestration and relevant tooling to allow fast development and deployment.
• Developing self-service tools to enhance developer productivity for application management
• Proactively collaborate across multiple teams in the organization to ensure that the requirements are captured and met by tooling provided
• Developing the POCs to demonstrate the viability of new ideas and technologies to support the innovation
• Ability to manage teams with a leadership mindset.

Skills

Automation mindset

Git & branching

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD tools (Jenkins)

Build tools (Maven)

Scripting languages (Ruby, Java, Go, /

Tools

Jenkins Pipelines

Nexus Repository

Prometheus

Nagios

Job description

Analyzing, executing, and streamlining DevOps practices and facilitating the development process and automation.

Responsibilities

• Review existing DevOps strategies and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Ideate, Solution, Present & Roll out ‘best-fit’ DevOps solution that takes into account customer & end-user needs while accounting for the tooling preferences & commercial landscape
• Gather requirements, design, and implement new DevOps strategies and architect overall, comprehensive and efficient practices.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipeline by enabling suitable DevOps channels across the organization.
• Design and write build scripts in scripting languages like perl, shell, or python.
• Design process/schedule to deliver completed development to various environments.
• Verify successful continuous delivery deployments to various environments.
• Design org and branching strategies and maintain version control repositories.
• Monitor and review continuous delivery validation build for failures.
• Guide developers and operations teams in case of an issue and resolve deployment issues with the team.
• Seek out and understand new technologies which can play a key role in the near future direction of our system, designed using modern technologies and approaches to provide orchestration and relevant tooling to allow fast development and deployment.
• Developing self-service tools to enhance developer productivity for application management
• Proactively collaborate across multiple teams in the organization to ensure that the requirements are captured and met by tooling provided
• Developing the POCs to demonstrate the viability of new ideas and technologies to support the innovation
• Ability to manage teams with a leadership mindset.

Required Skills/Experience

• 8+ years of experience in software development with a strong automation mindset.
• Build and maintain highly scalable, large scale deployments globally
• Strong understanding of version control (git), branching & merging strategies, and build setup.
• Should have good understanding in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Should have an understanding of CI/CD and DevOps tools like Jenkins/Jenkins Pipelines, Nexus etc
• Programming and scripting abilities across a range of languages e.g. Ruby, Java, Go, Python, etc.
• Experience with build automation tools such as Maven
• Monitoring and Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Nagios / appdynamics, ELK, Prometheus).
• Good Experience of distributed systems RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis etc.