R&D DevOps Engineer – GPQSS Digital- IDC
Hitachi, Ltd.23 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms with reusable services, templates, pipelines, and automation.
- Manage cloud-native platform components using Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and container registries.
- Create standardized Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline templates for build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and release automation.
- Implement infrastructure as code and configuration-driven operations using Terraform, Helm, Ansible, ARM/Bicep, and GitOps practices.
- Build developer self-service capabilities such as environment provisioning, deployment templates, monitoring dashboards, and operational runbooks.
- Improve platform reliability through observability, logging, metrics, alerting, SLOs, incident analysis, and continuous operational improvement.
- Integrate platform security controls, secrets management, container and dependency scanning, image scanning, and policy enforcement.
- Support DevSecOps practices with security and quality tools such as SonarCloud, Black Duck, and MetaDefender.
- Implement authentication, authorization, API gateway, ingress, service mesh, and secure connectivity patterns.
- Troubleshoot deployment, performance, networking, availability, and operational issues with application teams.
- Define platform standards, reusable architecture patterns, documentation, and best practices.
- Evaluate automation, AI-assisted development, and platform engineering improvements to reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or cloud-native application delivery.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container registries, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Strong experience designing Azure DevOps pipelines, YAML pipelines, release automation, branching strategies, and reusable pipeline templates.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ARM/Bicep, or equivalent tools.
- Understanding of platform engineering concepts including developer portals, golden paths, self-service automation, reusable templates, and paved-road standards.
- Experience with GitOps tools and practices such as Argo CD or Flux.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor, or Application Insights.
- Understanding of networking, ingress controllers, DNS, certificates, load balancing, API gateways, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Experience with secrets management, identity and access control, OAuth, JWT, OpenID Connect, Keycloak, or Azure Key Vault.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps, secure SDLC, threat modeling, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, image scanning, and compliance readiness.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, background jobs, or similar event-driven and distributed-system integration patterns is advantageous.
- Understanding of application architecture, microservices, REST APIs, .NET Core, Angular, or full-stack development concepts is advantageous.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, automation, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently, guide engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform standards and best practices.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot is advantageous.
Benefits
- Full-time, non-remote position based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.
- Pre-employment background and security screening may be conducted in accordance with applicable laws.
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About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. builds industrial, energy, rail, and digital systems for governments and enterprises, combining operational technology with IT, cloud, and data infrastructure services. Its portfolio spans power grids, factory automation, data centers, rail systems, and consulting delivered through units such as Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi Rail, and Hitachi Energy. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates globally across critical infrastructure markets.