Job Title - DevOps Engineer Location - ADB SAFEGATE Labs India, Hyderabad
Full time role
Hybrid (4 days from office)

ADB SAFEGATE is the market leader in Airfield Solutions, with a presence in 2,700 airports and 40 offices worldwide. We are building ADB SAFEGATE Labs India in Hyderabad – our latest software development hub. This is an opportunity to join a truly global company, working on innovative software solutions that support airport operations across Airfield, Apron, Terminal, Tower, and Weather solutions.
Our mission: helping airports achieve new levels of safety, sustainability, and efficiency in airside operations. If you're passionate about developing innovative products and solutions that make air travel safer and better, come join our crew!

We are looking for a software engineer with strong leadership skills who can take ownership of DevOps responsibilities and drive a service-oriented architecture mindset across the team. You will design, build, and operate a container-based delivery platform (artifacts shipped as containers) and maintain reliable development and runtime environments across both virtualized (e.g., Azure VMware Solution) and physical server landscapes. You will champion engineering quality (clean code, testing, automated analysis), operational excellence (troubleshooting, observability), and security compliance (CIS hardening, CVE reporting).

DevOps & CI/CD (container-centric)
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines where deliverables are container images , including versioning, promotion strategies, and traceability.
Automate build, test, security checks, and deployment workflows; Integrate artifact/image registries, policy enforcement, and automated reporting.

Operate and support container orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes , while also handling container runtime aspects beyond orchestration.

Infrastructure & OS platform engineering (Physical, Virtual, Managed)
RHEL and Windows




Virtual environments (e.g., Azure, VMware Solution ) and physical servers
Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management using Ansible and Terraform (for cloud infrastructure).

Quality engineering & reliability
Drive code quality practices: Clean Code , code reviews, static analysis, linting, formatting, and dependency hygiene.
Ensure automated testing strategy coverage (integration/system), pipeline gating, and reproducible environments.
Own troubleshooting across the stack (pipelines, containers, OS, network, runtime issues) and improve operability via metrics/logging/tracing.

Required Skills & Experience

- 4-5 years of experience in DevOps role.
- Proven experience with ownership, mentoring, decision-making.
- Robust hands-on experience with containerization (Docker/OCI), image build optimization, and secure image practices.
- Solid experience with CI/CD design and operations (pipelines, gating, promotions, automation).
- Practical expertise with Kubernetes and container operations concepts (deployments, config, secrets, networking basics).
- Strong Python skills for automation/tools and Ansible for configuration management and OS provisioning.
- Experience administering and hardening RHEL and Windows (golden images/baselines, patching, configuration).
- Experience with Azure and/or Azure VMware Solution operations and integration patterns.

Experience generating/maintaining SBOMs , signing images, and supply chain security (e.g., Experience with Rancher tools such as RKE2, and K3s for Kubernetes management and orchestration.
Experience with Grafana and Prometheus for observability, monitoring, and alerting.

A reliable, fast, and secure container-based CI/CD process with clear promotion paths and traceability.
Standardized, hardened, and maintainable RHEL/Windows baselines for both virtual and physical environments.
Measurable improvements in code quality, test automation, and operational stability.

📌 Lab DevOps Engineer (Secunderabad)
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