Sr. DevOps Engineer - OpenShift & CI/CD

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in CI/CD, OpenShift, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitOps, Service Mesh, and DevOps automation .

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and containerized application environments across Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. The role requires strong practical experience in enterprise DevOps environments, automation, microservices security, observability, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise application deployments.
• Build and manage deployment pipelines across container technologies including Native Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift .
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions .
• Implement and manage Jenkins-based Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Jenkins Shared Libraries, Pipeline-as-Code, and Groovy scripting for CI/CD automation.
• Implement and manage GitOps-based deployment practices using tools such as ArgoCD .
• Work with development and engineering teams to automate application build, deployment, release, and environment management processes.
• Manage and support multiple application environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
• Implement and maintain Service Mesh solutions within containerized and microservices environments.
• Support secure communication between microservices and understand microservice authentication and authorization mechanisms .
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, configure, and manage different application environments.
• Implement DevOps automation to improve deployment reliability, repeatability, and efficiency.
• Monitor application and platform health and troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and pipeline issues.
• Implement and maintain enterprise logging and monitoring solutions .
• Work with ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana for centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and troubleshooting.
• Support production deployments, incident resolution, performance monitoring, and continuous platform improvements.
• Contribute to DevOps standards, automation frameworks, engineering best practices, and platform reliability initiatives.

Required Technical Skills

CI/CD & Automation

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines .
• Strong experience with Jenkins .
• Experience developing Jenkins Shared Libraries .
• Strong understanding of Pipeline-as-Code .
• Hands-on experience with Groovy scripting for Jenkins automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions .

Kubernetes & OpenShift

• Strong hands-on experience with Native Kubernetes .
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift administration and deployments .
• Experience deploying and managing containerized applications across Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Strong understanding of container-based application deployment and orchestration.

GitOps

• Practical experience with GitOps methodologies .
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools.
• Understanding of automated, declarative application deployment and environment management.

Service Mesh & Microservices Security

• Practical hands-on experience with Service Mesh technologies.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture .
• Strong understanding of microservice authentication and authorization processes .
• Understanding of secure service-to-service communication.

Monitoring & Observability

• Strong understanding of enterprise logging and monitoring solutions .
• Hands-on experience with ELK Stack .
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus .
• Hands-on experience with Grafana .
• Ability to troubleshoot application and platform issues using logs, metrics, and monitoring dashboards.

Required Competencies

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work across development, testing, operations, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise DevOps practices and automation.
• Ability to manage multiple environments and deployment pipelines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong ownership of production stability, deployment quality, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced Agile/DevOps environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience working in banking or financial services environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms.
• Experience with highly available and production-critical applications.
• Exposure to security, compliance, and controlled deployment practices within regulated environments.