About this role
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 groupsGitOps with FluxCD or ArgoCDScripting proficiency: Bash, PowerShell or Python for automationGit-based workflow as a daily habitStrong plus:
HashiCorp Vault (secrets management, ExternalSecrets)Prometheus / GrafanaAzure (AKS, Container Registry, networking)AnsibleJFrog Artifactor.NET and/or Java application ecosystems (for support & build pipeline context)AWS EKS experienceNice to have:
Crossplane, SkaffoldKubernetes operator developmentExperience in regulated industries (food testing, pharma, life sciences)What We Offer
Full ownership of a platform that serves the development team in Food DACHA well-documented environment with a structured handover (Day 0/1/2 runbooks)Hybrid work modelExposure to group-level cloud engineering via the Odysseus migration programDirect impact on lab operations across the DACH regionLocation & Language
Germany (DACH region). Working language is English; German is a plus for stakeholder communication.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field