Job Description
Job Title: Devops Engineer
Work Location: Bangalore
Shift timings: 8.00am to 5.00pm OR 12.00pm to 9.00pm IST
Work mode: Hybrid - 3 Days office
The Role Summary :
You will be the primary platform engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating CI/CD infrastructure and Kubernetes environments for the development team across on-premises and Azure cloud. This is a high-autonomy, high-ownership role: you will be the go-to person for everything from pipeline templates to cluster operations to infrastructure migrations.
What You'll Do :
Own CI/CD: Maintain and extend standardised Azure DevOps YAML pipeline templates consumed by all app teams. Manage build/deployment agent images and their Kubernetes-hosted runners. Run Kubernetes: Operate on-premises clusters (ArgoCD/GitOps) and AKS clusters in Azure (FluxCD/GitOps). Provision namespaces, RBAC, service accounts and middleware (Consul, RabbitMQ, Vault, Elasticsearch, monitoring stack). Automate everything: Namespace provisioning, Azure DevOps pipeline and variable group creation via API, Ansible-managed reverse proxies, automated certificate workflows. Monitor: Maintain Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager stack including a custom monitoring operator for auto-generating dashboards per team. Support dev teams: Technical consulting on containerisation, Helm charts, pipeline development, Kubernetes deployments and incident response for internal and external teams. Drive migrations: Lead or support workload migrations from legacy on-prem (ES-AREA1) to segregated Azure environments (AAG011) and toward the group-wide Odysseus AKS platform. Infrastructure as Code: Manage Azure infrastructure via Bicep; manage package registries (Azure Container Registry, JFrog Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault). What You Bring
Must-have:
Solid Kubernetes experience (operations, RBAC, Helm, Kustomize, troubleshooting) Azure DevOps — pipelines, agents, service connections, variable groups GitOps with FluxCD or ArgoCD Scripting proficiency: Bash, PowerShell or Python for automation Git-based workflow as a daily habit Strong plus:
HashiCorp Vault (secrets management, ExternalSecrets) Prometheus / Grafana Azure (AKS, Container Registry, networking) Ansible JFrog Artifactor .NET and/or Java application ecosystems (for support & build pipeline context) AWS EKS experience Nice to have:
Crossplane, Skaffold Kubernetes operator development Experience in regulated industries (food testing, pharma, life sciences) What We Offer
Full ownership of a platform that serves the development team in Food DACH A well-documented environment with a structured handover (Day 0/1/2 runbooks) Hybrid work model Exposure to group-level cloud engineering via the Odysseus migration program Direct impact on lab operations across the DACH region Location & Language
Germany (DACH region). Working language is English; German is a plus for stakeholder communication. Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
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