Job Title: DevOps Engineer – Platform Engineering
Self Employed position
Ideal start date: end of November early December
About the Role
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (Mid–Senior level) to design, implement, and manage deployment of a highly scalable, secure, and observable platform ecosystem built on OpenShift and integrated with Vault, multiple databases, messaging middleware, and observability tools.
This platform supports mission-critical workloads and services leveraging OpenShift, HashiCorp Vault, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MinIO, Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, Nginx, Squid, Solace, and Confluent (Kafka).
You’ll play a key role in automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring system reliability, and enabling continuous delivery for development teams.
Key Responsibilities
* Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment of infrastructure and applications using Ansible, Terraform, or Helm.
* Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for application builds, tests, and deployments.
* Ensure zero-downtime deployments, scalability, and resilience through automation.
* Contribute to the standardization and automation of release processes, including branching and tagging strategies.
* Collaborate with Digital Product teams to gather feedback, suggest improvements, and align on best practices.
* Enforce security standards defined by integrating SAST/DAST scanning tools (SonarQube,Veracode, Trivy, Syft).
* Maintain base UBI images and ensure regular application of security patches.
* Set up alerting and dashboards for proactive detection and resolution of performance issues.
Security & Compliance
* Integrate Vault with OpenShift for secrets and credential management.
* Enforce least privilege and role-based access control (RBAC) across the platform.
* Support vulnerability scanning, patching, and compliance automation.
Performance, Reliability & Troubleshooting
* Analyze platform performance and implement optimization strategies for scaling.
* Troubleshoot issues across networking, infrastructure, CI/CD, and application layers.
* Conduct incident response and post-mortem analysis for platform outages.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
* Work closely with developers, tester to support CI/CD automation, testing, and environment readiness.
* Mentor and contribute to best practices documentation.
* Participate in architecture discussions to ensure scalability, observability, and reliability.
Required Skills & Experience
* 4–8 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, or Platform Engineer.
* Hands-on experience with OpenShift (Kubernetes) — deployments, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton) and related automation.
* Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
* Experience managing databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MinIO, Elasticsearch).
* Familiarity with Solace, Confluent Kafka, or other message brokers.
* Experience in monitoring/observability tools (ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana).
* Proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go for scripting and automation.
* Strong understanding of Linux system administration and networking fundamentals.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) integrated with OpenShift.
* Understanding of microservices architectures and service mesh (e.g., Istio).
* Exposure to performance testing, load balancing, and capacity planning.
* Experience with GitOps frameworks (ArgoCD).
* Knowledge of security best practices for cloud-native platforms.
* Certification(s) in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or HashiCorp Vault preferred.
Soft Skills & Attributes
* Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
* Passion for automation, continuous improvement, and reliability.
* Ability to work in agile, fast-paced, cross-functional teams.
* Ownership-driven and proactive in troubleshooting and optimization.
Tech Stack You’ll Work With
Core Platform: OpenShift (Kubernetes), HashiCorp Vault
Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MinIO, Elasticsearch
Messaging: Solace, Confluent (Kafka)
Networking: Nginx, Squid
Observability: ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana
Automation Tools: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Tekton
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD
Languages: Bash, Python, YAML, Go