DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer – Platform Engineering

Self Employed position

Ideal start date: end of November early December

About the Role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (Mid–Senior level) to design, implement, and manage deployment of a highly scalable, secure, and observable platform ecosystem built on OpenShift and integrated with Vault, multiple databases, messaging middleware, and observability tools.

This platform supports mission-critical workloads and services leveraging OpenShift, HashiCorp Vault, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MinIO, Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, Nginx, Squid, Solace, and Confluent (Kafka).

You’ll play a key role in automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring system reliability, and enabling continuous delivery for development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment of infrastructure and applications using Ansible, Terraform, or Helm.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for application builds, tests, and deployments.
• Ensure zero-downtime deployments, scalability, and resilience through automation.
• Contribute to the standardization and automation of release processes, including branching and tagging strategies.
• Collaborate with Digital Product teams to gather feedback, suggest improvements, and align on best practices.
• Enforce security standards defined by integrating SAST/DAST scanning tools (SonarQube,Veracode, Trivy, Syft).
• Maintain base UBI images and ensure regular application of security patches.
• Set up alerting and dashboards for proactive detection and resolution of performance issues.

Security & Compliance

• Integrate Vault with OpenShift for secrets and credential management.
• Enforce least privilege and role-based access control (RBAC) across the platform.
• Support vulnerability scanning, patching, and compliance automation.

Performance, Reliability & Troubleshooting

• Analyze platform performance and implement optimization strategies for scaling.
• Troubleshoot issues across networking, infrastructure, CI/CD, and application layers.
• Conduct incident response and post-mortem analysis for platform outages.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with developers, tester to support CI/CD automation, testing, and environment readiness.
• Mentor and contribute to best practices documentation.
• Participate in architecture discussions to ensure scalability, observability, and reliability.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4–8 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, or Platform Engineer.
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift (Kubernetes) — deployments, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton) and related automation.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
• Experience managing databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MinIO, Elasticsearch).
• Familiarity with Solace, Confluent Kafka, or other message brokers.
• Experience in monitoring/observability tools (ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go for scripting and automation.
• Strong understanding of Linux system administration and networking fundamentals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) integrated with OpenShift.
• Understanding of microservices architectures and service mesh (e.g., Istio).
• Exposure to performance testing, load balancing, and capacity planning.
• Experience with GitOps frameworks (ArgoCD).
• Knowledge of security best practices for cloud-native platforms.
• Certification(s) in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or HashiCorp Vault preferred.

Soft Skills & Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for automation, continuous improvement, and reliability.
• Ability to work in agile, fast-paced, cross-functional teams.
• Ownership-driven and proactive in troubleshooting and optimization.

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

Core Platform: OpenShift (Kubernetes), HashiCorp Vault

Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MinIO, Elasticsearch

Messaging: Solace, Confluent (Kafka)

Networking: Nginx, Squid

Observability: ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana

Automation Tools: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Tekton

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD

Languages: Bash, Python, YAML, Go