Senior DevOps Automation Engineer - CI/CD Platform

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Automation Engineer to join our team and design, automate and support a CI/CD platform and a containers platform running both in the cloud and on-premises. You will work closely with development teams to keep their delivery pipelines scalable, secure and reliable.

Key Responsibilities

- Ensure the CI/CD platform design aligns with industry best practices for scalability, security and performance

- Update existing application and infrastructure designs of the CI/CD platform

- Design, maintain and improve the containers platform, both in the cloud (e.g. Azure) and on-premises (RKE2/Rancher)

- Create reusable pipelines, pipeline templates and robust automation scripts to build, release and update applications and infrastructure components

- Ensure repeatability and ease of management for future deployments

- Package applications using Helm charts

- Upgrade application servers and agents at least twice per year

- Support development teams on their CI/CD tasks, and provide training and knowledge transfer on the platform

- Measure and report on metrics such as cycle time, time to value (TTV), uptime, error rate and team retention rate, as well as CI/CD usage

Requirements

- Minimum 5 years of experience in CI/CD platforms

- Minimum 3 years of experience in Azure DevOps Server administration

- Minimum 2 years of experience in application deployments on Kubernetes

- Expertise in Azure DevOps Server and Services administration

- Excellent knowledge of CI/CD pipeline creation and configuration, and of DevOps principles and best practices (automation, feedback loops, fail fast, efficiency)

- Excellent knowledge of application containerisation, packaging and deployment on Kubernetes clusters (Helm charts, operators, pipelines)

- Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools and methodologies, such as Terraform or Puppet

- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

- Working knowledge of English (B2 or higher)

- Ability to support development teams and share knowledge through training sessions

Nice to Have

- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

- Experience with Rancher / RKE2 on-premises Kubernetes environments

- Experience with metrics and reporting on delivery performance (e.g. cycle time, deployment frequency)

Benefits

Why join inventYOU

- Work on a challenging, large-scale CI/CD and containers platform

- Use modern DevOps, Kubernetes and cloud technologies

- Collaborate with experienced engineering and technology professionals

- Contribute to improving automation and platform engineering practices

- Continue developing your career in DevOps and platform engineering

Originally posted on Himalayas