Senior DevOps Engineer

Education:

Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or IT related such as Computer Science, MCA, B Tech.

Work experience:

Minimum 6-8 years of relevant experience.

Role summary

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate automated CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Harness. The engineer will own build/deploy automation, IaC, container orchestration, release strategies (canary/blue-green), and production reliability practices. The role works closely with developers, QA, security, and platform teams to accelerate safe delivery.

Core Skill:

• Design, build and operate robust CI/CD pipelines using Harness (pipelines, workflows, triggers, connectors, delegates, secret management, and Harness Feature Flags).

• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform to provision and manage GCP resources (GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, VPC, IAM, Artifact Registry/GCR, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub).

• Build and maintain Kubernetes platform resources and Helm/Kustomize charts; support GKE cluster lifecycle, autoscaling, and upgrades.

• Enable repeatable, secure deployments: containerization best practices, image promotion, vulnerability scanning, and signing.

• Implement release strategies: blue/green, canary, traffic shifting and progressive delivery via Harness and/or service mesh integrations.

• Integrate observability and monitoring (Cloud Monitoring/Stackdriver, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) and logging pipelines; create alerts and runbooks.

• Automate compliance, security and secrets management (GCP IAM, Secret Manager, HashiCorp Vault, vulnerability scanning).

• Troubleshoot production incidents and lead post-incident reviews; improve reliability via SRE practices and runbooks.

• Coach teams on GitOps and CI/CD best practices; write docs and platform runbooks; onboard projects onto Harness and IaC modules.

• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure deployments meet governance and audit requirements.

Required skills and experience (must-haves)

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform: GKE, IAM, VPC, Cloud Storage, Artifact Registry/GCR, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Monitoring.

• Practical experience building/deploying pipelines in Harness (creating pipelines/workflows, connectors, secrets, delegates, triggers, and Harness’ progressive delivery features).

• Strong Terraform skills for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure; modular, testable modules.

• Kubernetes experience: manifest authoring, Helm/Kustomize, cluster troubleshooting, deployments, RBAC and networking.

• Solid Linux, Docker/containerization, and Git skills.

• Experience with CI/CD concepts: build agents, artifact promotion, canary/blue-green, rollback strategies.

• Familiarity with CI tools (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab) and container registries.

• Strong scripting skills (Powershell) for automation tasks.

• Good communication and cross-functional teamwork skills; ability to write clear runbooks and documentation.

Nice-to-have / preferred

• GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification.

• Harness certification or prior experience onboarding multiple teams to Harness.

• Experience with feature flags and progressive delivery patterns.

• Experience with HashiCorp Vault and secret lifecycle management.

• Knowledge of service meshes (Istio/Linkerd/Anthos Service Mesh).

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (PCI, SOC2) and deployment hardening.

• Experience in cost optimization and resource budgeting in GCP.

Core Competency

• Leadership skills and design thinking : Moderate

• Results Orientation - High

• Customer Focus - High

• Fostering Relationships - High

• Good Communicator - High

• Driving Change and Innovation - Moderate

• Critical and Analytical Thinking - High