About this role
Technical Lead
Job description: Job Description – Senior Developer / Technical Lead Experience 8–10 years of relevant experience in Software Development, Platform Development, Systems Engineering, or Automation Engineering. Role Summary Hands-on Senior Developer / Technical Lead responsible for designing and developing platform solutions and automation across RHEL/Linux, Platform Security, Security Compliance, Jenkins, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes. The role combines technical leadership, hands-on development, troubleshooting, security/compliance automation, and CI/CD integration. Key Responsibilities
• Lead design, development, and maintenance of platform software, utilities, and automation for RHEL/Linux.
• Develop robust Shell/Python-based automation for configuration, deployment, validation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Design and implement platform security and security compliance automation.
• Drive RHEL security hardening, secure configuration, vulnerability and compliance validation.
• Design and integrate solutions with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and deploy solutions across Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes environments.
• Design reusable, scalable, secure, and maintainable automation components.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex platform, security, CI/CD, and deployment issues.
• Conduct technical design and code reviews and drive development best practices.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, Security, Architecture, and Product teams.
• Mentor developers and provide technical guidance to the team.
• Drive continuous improvement in automation, platform reliability, security, compliance, and engineering efficiency.
• Evaluate and leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude, and Gemini for coding, debugging, refactoring, testing, and documentation.
Required Skills RHEL / Platform
• Strong hands-on expertise in RHEL/Linux.
• Strong understanding of Linux configuration, processes, services, networking, permissions, logs, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Shell, Python scripting skills.
• Experience with Linux/system-level development or automation.
Platform Security & Compliance
• Strong understanding of RHEL/Linux security and hardening.
• Experience with secure configuration and security control validation.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, permissions, certificates, and vulnerabilities.
• Strong understanding of security compliance requirements and validation.
• Experience automating security and compliance checks.
CI/CD & Cloud
• Strong experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong working knowledge of Git.
• Working/strong knowledge of Azure.
• Hands-on experience with Docker.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s).
• Experience with OpenShift is an advantage.
Development
• Strong Shell, Python scripting and software development skills.
• C++ or Java experience preferred.
• Understanding of APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications is an advantage.
AI-Assisted Development
• Practical experience with Cursor, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools.
• Ability to use AI for code generation, debugging, refactoring, testing, and documentation.
• Ability to validate AI-generated code for quality, security, and maintainability.
Technical Leadership
• Own technical design and delivery of platform development and automation initiatives.
• Translate requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Define and enforce coding, design, security, and automation standards.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Identify technical risks and drive resolution.
• Mentor developers and provide technical direction.
• Drive modernization and continuous improvement of platform solutions.
Candidate Profile The ideal candidate is a hands-on Senior Developer / Technical Lead with strong expertise across Platform Security, Secur RHEL, Shell, Python, ity Compliance, Jenkins, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes. Strong technical leadership, troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and collaboration skills are essential.