Specialist System Engineer – Cloud Automation

Cricket Wireless LLC.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a senior platform automation engineer to design and implement scalable CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Azure and Bicep, and secure API automation. The role emphasizes observability, incident prevention, and cross-functional collaboration with security and ops teams.

You will build self-service workflows, leverage Git-backed pipelines, and contribute to reliable, scalable platform services across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Telecommunications, or equivalent experience.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Building and maintaining pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) for apps, automation, and IaC.
• Programming & Scripting: Python (primary), Django, Powershell and Bash on Linux for automation and tooling.
• Azure Cloud: Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on cloud environments such as Azure.
• DevOps Fundamentals: Git, branching strategies, code reviews, automated testing, artifact/version management, and release strategies.
• Operations at Scale: Building automation that is idempotent, resilient, auditable, and observable.
• API Development: Designing and implementing robust, secure APIs for operational workflows.
• RBAC, policy enforcement, and Azure Key Vault for secrets management.
• Familiarity with containers/Kubernetes and how automation integrates with platform services.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy CI/CD pipelines that deliver platform services, configurations, and automation safely and repeatably at scale.
• Design and develop Web UIs and APIs and that enable self-service operations and event-driven workflows for platform management.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Azure + Bicep standardizing patterns, modules, and guardrails for consistent deployments.
• Embed observability and reliability into automation (logging, metrics, pre/post-checks), enabling proactive operations.
• Codify runbooks into reusable tools/CLIs, Git-backed workflows, and pipelines for our operations teams.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with platform engineering, security, and operations to prioritize automation that reduces toil and MTTR.

Skills

CI/CD Pipelines

Programming & Scripting

Observability & Reliability

API Development

Security & RBAC

Containers & Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT/Telecommunications

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Python

Django

PowerShell

Bicep

Azure Key Vault

RBAC

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Responsibilities

Build and deploy CI/CD pipelines that deliver platform services, configurations, and automation safely and repeatably at scale. Design and develop Web Uis and APIs and that enable self-service operations and event-driven workflows for platform management. Implement Infrastructure as Code using Azure + Bicep standardizing patterns, modules, and guardrails for consistent deployments. Embed observability and reliability into automation (logging, metrics, pre/post-checks), enabling proactive operations. Codify runbooks into reusable tools/CLIs, Git-backed workflows, and pipelines for our operations teams. Collaborate cross-functionally with platform engineering, security, and operations to prioritize automation that reduces toil and MTTR.

Job Qualifications / Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Telecommunications, or equivalent experience.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Building and maintaining pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) for apps, automation, and IaC.
• Programming & Scripting: Python (primary), Django, Powershell and Bash on Linux for automation and tooling.
• Azure Cloud: Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on cloud environments such as Azure\ DevOps Fundamentals: Git, branching strategies, code reviews, automated testing, artifact/version management, and release strategies.
• Operations at Scale: Building automation that is idempotent, resilient, auditable, and observable.
• API Development: Designing and implementing robust, secure APIs for operational workflows.
• Experience with RBAC, policy enforcement, and Azure Key Vault for secrets management.
• Familiarity with containers/Kubernetes and how automation integrates with platform services (helpful but not required).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing self-service operational tools, dashboards, web UIs, or internal portals using Python/Django or comparable frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Azure-native automation, including Bicep modules, Azure DevOps pipelines, Azure Key Vault, RBAC, policies, and deployment guardrails.
• Practical experience building event-driven automation, APIs, CLIs, or Git-backed workflows that convert operational runbooks into reusable services.
• Familiarity with observability practices, including structured logging, metrics, health checks, pre/post-validation, and operational dashboards.
• Experience supporting cloud or network platform operations at scale, with focus on reliability, auditability, security, and reduction of manual operational toil.
• Exposure to containers, Kubernetes, platform services, and automation integration across hybrid cloud or telecom network environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with platform engineering, security, operations, and external partner teams to deliver secure and production-ready automation.

Additional Job Information

This is an offshore role that requires daily collaboration with U.S. stakeholders, including overlapping work hours to ensure effective partnership and meet business needs.

• Weekly Hours: 40
• Time Type: Regular
• Location: IND:KA:Bangalore / Epip Area, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Rd - Eqp: Plot 111/112, Epip Area, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road

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