Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience: 8–12 years of overall IT experience, including 5+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering

Industry: Financial Services

Position Overview

Ness is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable application delivery and infrastructure automation solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, monitoring, and DevSecOps practices.

The successful candidate will collaborate with application development, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and operations teams to improve software delivery speed, system reliability, operational efficiency, and compliance with enterprise security standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. CI/CD and Release Automation

• Design, develop, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for application build, testing, deployment, and release management.

• Implement and manage pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.

• Automate application deployments across development, QA, staging, and production environments.

• Implement release strategies such as blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rolling upgrades where applicable.

• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, deployment issues, and environment-related problems.

2. Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering

• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or the cloud platform used by the client.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar tools.

• Manage cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, secrets, and environment configuration.

• Support hybrid-cloud and on-premises infrastructure integrations where required.

• Optimize infrastructure utilization, performance, availability, and operational costs.

3. Containerization and Platform Engineering

• Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Support Kubernetes-based platforms, including Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, or Red Hat OpenShift, as applicable.

• Automate application configuration, scaling, health checks, and deployment rollbacks.

• AWS API Gateway, MuleSoft, Apollo GraphQL

• Troubleshoot container, cluster, networking, and resource-allocation issues.

• Establish reusable deployment patterns and platform automation standards.

4. DevSecOps and Security

• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure provisioning workflows.

• Implement automated vulnerability scanning, dependency checks, container image scanning, and code security checks.

• Apply least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, and secure configuration practices.

• Support audit readiness, change controls, evidence collection, and compliance requirements applicable to financial services.

• Collaborate with security and risk teams to remediate vulnerabilities and address infrastructure risks.

• AWS API Gateway, MuleSoft, Apollo GraphQL

5. Monitoring, Observability, and Reliability

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing for applications and infrastructure.

• Work with tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent platforms.

• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.

• Improve system availability, performance, resiliency, and disaster recovery readiness.

• Establish and monitor service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and operational metrics.

6. Automation and Scripting

• Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.

• Automate repetitive operational tasks, environment provisioning, deployment validation, and incident remediation.

• Integrate APIs and automation frameworks to streamline engineering workflows.

• Maintain reusable scripts, modules, templates, and engineering documentation.

7. Collaboration and Technical Leadership

• Partner with software engineers, architects, QA, security, and production support teams.

• Participate in design reviews, release planning, change management, and incident management.

• Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices.

• Identify bottlenecks in software delivery and recommend continuous improvements.

• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and deployment standards.

Required Technical Skills

• 8–12 years of overall IT experience