About this role
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.