THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer with a robust specialization in CI/CD pipeline engineering to join our platform team. You will own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of our software delivery pipelines, working closely with development teams to accelerate release velocity, enforce quality gates, and embed security into every stage of the delivery lifecycle. Beyond pipelines, you will contribute to container platform operations, infrastructure automation, and observability tooling ensuring our systems are reliable, repeatable, and developer-friendly.
5+ years of overall experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps / SRE roles
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; degree in computer science or related field preferred.
Strong, demonstrable Kubernetes skills cluster administration, RBAC, namespacing, PVs, HPA, network policies
Solid Helm experience including authoring charts from scratch,



not just consuming existing ones
Hands-on Ansible experience for infrastructure automation and configuration management
Experience operating ArgoCD or similar GitOps tooling (Flux) in production
Working knowledge of LinkerD or another service mesh (Istio / Cilium)
Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, BGP, VXLAN, CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium)
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and a log aggregation stack (Loki, ELK, or similar)
Comfort in writing Python scripts for automation and tooling
Familiarity with on-premises Kubernetes deployment (bare metal or virtualised) is a robust plus

Nice to have
Terraform or Pulumi for cloud infrastructure provisioning
Experience with multi-cluster or multi-site Kubernetes architectures
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent certification

📌 Devops Engineer Pune (India)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 India