Senior Devops Engineer

Initech Software Solutions PVT LTD.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Initech Software Solutions PVT LTD. is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design and build CI/CD pipelines, automate Kubernetes lifecycle across on-prem and AWS EKS, and Run GitOps with ArgoCD. You will implement certificate rotation, security, and automated health checks to ensure production readiness.

You will collaborate with application teams, perform on-call rotations, and contribute to change management with rollback plans and thorough runbooks.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and maintaining Jenkins pipelines (declarative and scripted, Groovy, shared libraries, parameterised and scheduled jobs)
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience, both on-prem and on AWS EKS, including cluster upgrades and production operations
• GitOps experience with ArgoCD
• Ansible for configuration management, patching and orchestration
• Terraform, including remote state and CI-driven plan/apply workflows
• Solid AWS knowledge, especially EKS, IAM, Secrets Manager and S3
• Strong scripting in Python and Bash, including integrating with REST APIs
• Observability experience, preferably Dynatrace (dashboards, alerting, DQL)
• Git and GitHub pull-request workflows
• A track record of delivering automation into production safely, with rollback plans, validation and change management
• The ability to work independently, own outcomes end to end, and explain technical trade-offs to engineers and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design and build Jenkins pipelines for environment refreshes and patching
• Automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle on-prem and on AWS EKS
• Run GitOps delivery with ArgoCD
• Automate rotation of certificates, keys and passwords with cert-manager and AWS Secrets Manager
• Run automated dependency and vulnerability updates (Renovate, Trivy)
• Manage Dynatrace dashboards and alerting as code with Terraform
• Build automated health checks and readiness dashboards
• Build self-service automation triggered from ServiceNow requests
• Develop AI-assisted on-call tooling with guardrails and approvals
• Plan rollback, pre/post validation and change management for automation
• Write runbooks and documentation, mentor engineers
• Collaborate with application teams, DB engineers, release management and security
• Take part in the on-call rotation

Skills

Jenkins Pipelines

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Ansible

Terraform

AWS (EKS, IAM, Secrets Manager, S3)

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Dynatrace Observability

Git/GitHub Workflows

Change Management

On-call & Troubleshooting

Tools

cert-manager

External Secrets Operator

Stakater Reloader

Renovate

Trivy

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Design and build Jenkins pipelines for environment refreshes, quarterly OS and middleware patching, Kubernetes/EKS/ArgoCD upgrades and site-resiliency failover exercises
• Automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle on-prem and on AWS EKS, including deprecated-API pre-flight checks, node draining, readiness gates and wave promotion from sandbox to production
• Run GitOps delivery with ArgoCD, using sync waves to promote changes from one environment to the next
• Automate rotation of certificates, keys and passwords with cert-manager, External Secrets Operator and AWS Secrets Manager, without disrupting applications
• Run automated dependency and vulnerability updates (Renovate, Trivy) so every change goes through a reviewed pull request
• Manage Dynatrace dashboards and alerting as code with Terraform, using plan-on-PR, apply-on-merge and drift detection
• Build automated health checks and readiness dashboards for business-critical processing windows
• Build self-service automation triggered from ServiceNow requests, with access controls and automatic expiry
• Develop AI-assisted on-call tooling that triages incidents across monitoring, ticketing and logs, and runs approved runbook fixes under strict guardrails and human approval
• Plan rollback, pre/post validation and change management for every automation that touches production
• Write runbooks and documentation, and mentor engineers on using and extending the automation
• Work with application teams, database engineers, release management and security on dependencies and handoffs
• Take part in the on-call rotation

Preferred candidate profile

• Strong experience building and maintaining Jenkins pipelines (declarative and scripted, Groovy, shared libraries, parameterised and scheduled jobs)
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience, both on-prem and on AWS EKS, including cluster upgrades and production operations
• GitOps experience with ArgoCD
• Ansible for configuration management, patching and orchestration
• Terraform, including remote state and CI-driven plan/apply workflows
• Solid AWS knowledge, especially EKS, IAM, Secrets Manager and S3
• Strong scripting in Python and Bash, including integrating with REST APIs
• Observability experience, preferably Dynatrace (dashboards, alerting, DQL)
• Git and GitHub pull-request workflows
• A track record of delivering automation into production safely, with rollback plans, validation and change management
• The ability to work independently, own outcomes end to end, and explain technical trade-offs to engineers and stakeholders

Nice to have:

• cert-manager, External Secrets Operator, Stakater Reloader
• Renovate, Trivy, pluto/kubent, kured, Kubespray
• Kafka / Confluent Cloud administration (Confluent CLI, API key management, consumer lag monitoring)
• Oracle WebLogic and OHS administration, including PSU patching
• F5 and/or AVI load balancer automation
• ServiceNow (catalog items, request-driven automation, REST API) and Jira automation
• Building AI agents or assistants for operations (e.g. Claude Code, MCP integrations) with safe credential and approval models
• Familiarity with ITGC/SOX controls for access management