DevOps Engineer

About BootLabs:

BootLabs is a boutique tech consulting and digital engineering company that partners with leading enterprises to build and support scalable, cloud-native, and data-driven platforms. We specialise in delivering high-impact solutions across cloud, AI/GenAI, platform engineering, and enterprise application support. Our teams work closely with global clients across highly regulated industries, including BFSI, Healthcare, E-commerce, and other domains, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence for mission-critical systems.

JD:

Extensive experience in deploying, and supporting enterprise workloads across Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.

Experience managing enterprise Landing Zones & Azure Policies.

Exposure to Azure Data Lake and Azure Databricks (basic to intermediate).

Knowledge of Terraform and any DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Hybrid connectivity experience (VPN Gateway / ExpressRoute).

Strong networking fundamentals (NSG, UDR, Peering).

OS-level troubleshooting (Windows & Linux).

Experience with enterprise security tools such as Prisma / Cortex or similar vulnerability & endpoint security tools

Experience in production support, governance, and security guardrails.

Experience handling production incidents, RCA preparation, and performance tuning. Change management & CAB coordination.

Hands-on experience with native Azure security services like Azure Firewall, Azure Application Gateway with WAF etc

Cost optimization ,Monitoring & alerting implementation

Job Details

- Job Title: DevOps and SRE -Technical Project Manager

- Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provider

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 12-15 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hosur & Hyderabad

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Job Description

Company’s DevOps Practice is seeking a highly skilled DevOps and SRE Technical Project Manager to lead large-scale transformation programs for enterprise customers. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), combined with strong program management, stakeholder leadership, and the ability to drive end-to-end execution of complex initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of DevOps and SRE transformation programs for enterprise clients, including full oversight of project budgets, financials, and margins.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to define program objectives, roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics aligned with business and technology goals.
• Develop and implement actionable strategies to optimize development, deployment, release management, observability, and operational workflows across client environments.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance to cross-functional engineering teams, ensuring alignment with industry standards, best practices, and company delivery methodologies.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers across programs, and proactively implement mitigation and contingency plans.
• Monitor program performance, KPIs, and financial health; drive corrective actions and margin optimization where necessary.
• Facilitate strong communication, collaboration, and transparency across engineering, product, architecture, and leadership teams.
• Deliver periodic program updates to internal and client stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, challenges, and improvement opportunities.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation by encouraging adoption of emerging DevOps, SRE, automation, and cloud-native practices.
• Support GitHub migration initiatives, including planning, execution, troubleshooting, and governance setup for repository and workflow migrations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years in a managerial or program leadership role.
• Proven experience leading large-scale DevOps and SRE transformation programs with measurable business impact.
• Strong program management expertise, including planning, execution oversight, risk management, and financial governance.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and modern software development practices.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native tooling.
• Familiarity with SRE practices such as service reliability, observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Experience with GitHub migration projects—including repository analysis, migration planning, tooling adoption, and workflow modernization.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with a results-oriented mindset.
• Preferred certifications: PMP, PgMP, ITIL, Agile/Scrum Master, or relevant technical certifications.

Skills: Devops Tools, Cloud Infrastructure, Team Management

Must-Haves

DevOps principles (5+ years), SRE practices (5+ years), GitHub migration (3+ years), CI/CD pipelines (5+ years), Agile methodologies (5+ years)

Notice period - 0 to 15days only 

Role & Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver automation software to build and improve platform functionality
• Ensure reliability, availability, and manageability of applications and cloud platforms
• Champion adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
• Design and build self-service, self-healing, monitoring, and alerting platforms
• Automate development and testing workflows through CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Docker containers)
• Build and manage container hosting platforms using Kubernetes

Requirements

• Strong experience deploying and maintaining GCP cloud infrastructure
• Well-versed in service-oriented and cloud-based architecture design patterns
• Knowledge of cloud services including compute, storage, networking, messaging, and automation tools (e.g., CloudFormation/Terraform equivalents)
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, Cassandra)
• Hands-on experience with automation/configuration tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform)

Additional Skills

• Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills
• Programming/scripting exposure (Bash, Python, Core Java, or Scala)
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, Git, Maven, etc.)
• Experience integrating solutions in multi-region environments
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum/DevOps methodologies

Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

• Responsible for the entire infrastructure including Production (both bare metal and AWS).
• Manage and maintain the production systems and operations including SysAdmin, DB activities.
• Improve tools and processes, automate manual efforts, and maintain the health of the system.
• Champion best practices, CI-CD, Metrics Driven Development
• Optimise the company's computing architecture
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability
• Maintain security of the system
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

• 7+ years of experience into DevOps/Technical Operations
• Extensive experience in operating scripting language like shell, python, etc
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD process for SaaS applications using tools such as Jenkins
• Hands on experience in using configuration management tools such as Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, etc
• Hands-on experience to build and handle VMs, Containers utilizing tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc
• Hands on experience in building, designing and maintaining cloud-based applications with AWS, Azure,GCP, etc
• Knowledge of Databases (MySQL, NoSQL)
• Knowledge of security/ethical hacking

• Have experience with ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash
• Have experience with Cassandra, Hadoop, or Spark
• Have experience with Mongo, Hive

• 7-10 years experience with secure SDLC/DevSecOps practices such as automating security processes within CI/CD pipeline.
• At least 4 yrs. experience designing, and securing Data Lake & Web applications deployed to AWS, Azure, Scripting/Automation skills on Python, Shell, YAML, JSON
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience with software development lifecycle, Agile project management (e.g. Jira, Confluence), source code management (e.g. Git), build automation (e.g. Jenkins), code linting and code quality (e.g. SonarQube), test automation (e.g. Selenium)
• Hand-on & Solid understanding of Amazon Web Services & Azure-based Infra & applications
• Experience writing cloud formation templates, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, and microservice application architecture and deployment.
• Strong know-how on VA/PT integration in CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in handling financial solutions & customer-facing applications

Roles

• Accelerate enterprise cloud adoption while enabling rapid and stable delivery of capabilities using continuous integration and continuous deployment principles, methodologies, and technologies
• Manage & deliver diverse cloud [AWS, Azure, GCP] DevSecOps journeys
• Identify, prototype, engineer, and deploy emerging software engineering methodologies and tools
• Maximize automation and enhance DevSecOps pipelines and other tasks
• Define and promote enterprise software engineering and DevSecOps standards, practices, and behaviors
• Operate and support a suite of enterprise DevSecOps services
• Implement security automation to decrease the loop between the development and deployment processes.
• Support project teams to adopt & integrate the DevSecOps environment
• Managing application vulnerabilities, Data security, encryption, tokenization, access management, Secure SDLC, SAST/DAST
• Coordinate with development and operations teams for practical automation solutions and custom flows.
• Own DevSecOps initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights, and advice.
• Act as Release gatekeeper with an understanding of OWASP top 10 lists of vulnerabilities, NIST SP-800-xx, NVD, CVSS scoring, etc concepts
• Build workflows to ensure a successful DevSecOps journey for various enterprise applications. 
• Understand the strategic direction to reach business goals across multiple projects & teams
• Collaborate with development teams to understand project deliverables and promote DevSecOps culture
• Formulate & deploy cloud automation strategies and tools

Skills

• Knowledge of the DevSecOps culture and principles.
• An understanding of cloud technologies & components
• A flair for programming languages such as Shell, Python, Java Scripts,
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
• Knowledge of threat modeling and risk assessment techniques.
• Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, current best practices, and the latest software.
• An understanding of programs such as Puppet, Chef, ThreatModeler, Checkmarx, Immunio, and Aqua.
• Strong know-how of Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure-based deployments
• On the job learning for new programming languages, automation tools, deployment architectures

DevOps 

Engineers : Min 3 to 5 Years 
Tech Leads : Min 6 to 10 Years 

• Implementing & supporting CI/CD/CT pipelines at scale.  
• Knowledge and experience using Chef, Puppet or Ansible automation to deploy and be able to manage Linux systems in production and CI environments.  
• Extensive experience with Shell scripts (bash).  
• Knowledge and practical experience of Jenkins for CI.  
• Experienced in build & release management.  
• Experience of deploying JVM based applications.  
• Enterprise AWS deployment with sound knowledge on AWS & AWS security.  
• Knowledge of encryption technologies: IPSec, SSL, SSH. 
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Linux Systems Engineer (CentOS/Red Hat) ideally supporting a highly-available, 24x7 production environments. 
• DNS providing and maintenance.  
• Helpful skills: Knowledge of applications relying on Maven, Ant, Gradle, Spring Boot.  
• Knowledge of app and server monitoring tools such as ELK/AppEngine. 
• Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills.