Overview

Position: Engineer Senior - DevOps

(10+ years of SRE/DevOps Engineer Experience)

The Senior DevOps Engineer owns and governs the Azure DevOps platform, enabling scalable, secure, and reliable CI/CD practices across projects. The role focuses on defining standards, driving best practices, mentoring teams, and providing advanced support for automation and deployments. Working closely with US-based stakeholders, DevInfra, QA, and Security, the engineer ensures consistent delivery,

compliance, and production stability across environments.

Note: Professionals with solid operational experience in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) ecosystem, paired with the foundational and development skills validated by the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certifications

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Administer and maintain the Azure DevOps platform, ensuring availability,

performance, and scalability

- Define and enforce governance policies for project structure, branching strategies, permissions, and release pipelines
- Establish and maintain platform-wide standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code,

and artifact management.

- Develop and promote best practices for DevOps workflows, including branching,

versioning, testing, and deployment.

- Provide onboarding, training, and mentorship to engineering teams on Azure

DevOps usage and project setup.

- Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to align DevOps practices with organizational goals
- Implement and manage access controls, audit logging, and compliance requirements across the DevOps platform
- Ensure secure handling of secrets, credentials, and sensitive data within pipelines and repositories
- Support production readiness by enforcing quality gates, approvals, and validation steps




- Support and govern infrastructure as code practices using tools such as

Terraform, Git, Kubernetes, Argo, YAML templates, etc.

- Integrate observability tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus) into

DevOps workflows for proactive monitoring and alerting

- Manage and optimize build and release pipelines, container strategies, and deployment automation using AI/ML
- Serve as a team lead to offshore Associates with an indirect reporting relationship,

providing mentorship, coaching and guidance and daily oversight of workload,

priorities and team vision and alignment

- Partner with architects and engineering leads to align DevOps platform capabilities with delivery roadmaps
- Stay current with Azure DevOps updates, industry trends, and emerging technologies to continuously improve platform capabilities
- Provide advanced troubleshooting and support for complex build, deployment,

and automation issues

- Support release activities, hotfixes, and production deployments in coordination with global teams
- Contribute to process documentation, standards, and continuous improvement initiatives

Qualification, Skills, Experience and Competencies Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years of proven experience as an SRE/DevOps Engineer with a focus on

DevOps or related experience

- Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
- Strong understanding of Azure services, cloud architecture, and security best practices
- AZ-400 Certification (Azure DevOps Engineer Expert) strongly preferred
- Familiarity with the following: Microsoft Power Platform suite (including Power

Apps, Power Automate, and PowerBI), C# developed applications, Docker,

LogicApps, Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines, PowerShell experience is preferred

📌 Engineer Senior - DevOps (Bengaluru)
🏢 Wipfli
📍 Bengaluru