DevOps Engineer

Position: DevOps & Release Engineer
Experience: 7-9 years
Employment Type: Fulltime
Location: Ahmedabad
Compensation: Upto 16 LPA
Immediate Joiners
Role overview
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps & Release Engineer to lead and optimise our software delivery lifecycle. The role will be responsible for designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, release planning, deployment automation, environment governance, and DevOps controls to ensure secure, reliable, and efficient software releases.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in modern cloud-native delivery practices, release governance, automation frameworks, security integration, and cross-functional collaboration with development, QA, infrastructure, and product teams.
Key responsibilities
CI/CD and deployment automation
Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.
Automate build, test, deployment, and rollback processes.
Standardise deployment practices across multiple applications and environments.
Improve deployment frequency, reliability, and lead time through automation.
Release planning and management
Own end-to-end release planning and execution activities.
Coordinate release schedules with product, engineering, QA, and operations teams.
Manage release readiness reviews and deployment checklists.
Ensure timely and controlled releases with minimal business disruption.
Environment management
Establish and maintain development, test, staging, and production environments.
Define environment provisioning and configuration standards.
Monitor environment health, stability, and availability.
Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption where applicable.
DevSecOps governance
Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
Implement static and dynamic security scanning, vulnerability management, and compliance checks.
Ensure adherence to security, regulatory, and organisational standards.
Collaborate with security teams to address risks and remediate findings.
Release governance and compliance
Define release policies, approval workflows, and deployment standards.
Conduct release risk assessments and change reviews.
Maintain audit trails and release documentation.
Drive continuous improvement in release management processes and metrics.
Production support and rollback planning
Develop rollback and disaster recovery procedures for critical releases.
Lead release monitoring and post-deployment validation activities.
Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.
Establish deployment success metrics and monitoring dashboards.
Required qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
7-9 years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
Strong experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
Hands-on experience in deployment automation and release orchestration.
Experience managing complex multi-environment deployments.
Strong understanding of Azure cloud platform
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Experience integrating security scanning and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.
Strong understanding of change management, release governance, and operational risk management.
Preferred qualifications
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms.
Experience implementing SRE and platform engineering practices.
Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Datadog, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.
Relevant certifications such as:
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Azure Administrator / Azure Solutions Architect
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
AWS DevOps Engineer
DevSecOps certifications

Work arrangement
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