Sr DevOps Engineer
ACI Worldwide4 months ago
Pune, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins and Gradle CI/CD pipelines across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Administer and evolve Kubernetes clusters on Azure AKS and extend the platform to OpenShift, AWS, and GCI while maintaining environment parity.
- Implement GitOps deployment workflows and configuration-as-code using the Carvel toolchain, including ytt, kapp-controller, imgpkg, and vendir.
- Develop Ansible automation for provisioning, configuration management, upgrades, patching, and environment refreshes.
- Manage External Secrets Operator integrations, secret stores, TLS certificates, certificate rotation, and policy controls.
- Operate NATS messaging and PostgreSQL infrastructure, including monitoring, recovery validation, connection management, and performance monitoring.
- Implement Testkube-based test orchestration and integrate security, compliance, vulnerability, and dependency testing into CI/CD quality gates.
- Build observability infrastructure for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, while contributing to runbooks, incident response, and on-call operations.
- Improve developer productivity through platform documentation, self-service tooling, and reduced build-test-deploy friction.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering roles.
- Hands-on Kubernetes cluster administration with knowledge of scheduling, networking, ingress, service mesh, RBAC, and storage.
- Experience authoring declarative and scripted Jenkins pipelines, using Gradle for Java/JVM projects, and managing artifacts with Nexus.
- Experience writing and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles, and inventories for infrastructure automation and configuration management.
- Practical experience with ytt, kapp-controller, imgpkg, vendir, and related Carvel tools.
- Experience authoring Dockerfiles, using multi-stage builds, optimizing images, managing registries, and integrating vulnerability scanning.
- Experience with External Secrets Operator, Kubernetes Secrets, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent secret stores.
- Experience managing TLS lifecycles with cert-manager or similar tooling, including certificate rotation automation.
- Operational experience with NATS messaging, including configuration, monitoring, and failure recovery.
- Experience provisioning, backing up, restoring, connecting to, and tuning containerized database environments.
- Experience deploying and integrating Testkube for Kubernetes-native test orchestration.
- Strong security mindset and experience with SAST, DAST, supply chain security, compliance controls, PCI-DSS, or SOC2.
- Azure experience is required or primary; working knowledge of OpenShift, AWS, or GCI is a strong plus.
- Preferred qualifications include multi-cloud platform delivery, Flux, ArgoCD, policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno, AI-assisted DevOps tooling, banking or payments experience, Istio or Linkerd, mTLS, and internal developer platform concepts.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Pune, India, with on-site work on designated days and remote eligibility on other days according to team and business needs.
- Opportunity to work on a mission-critical platform processing high-value banking transactions at scale.
- Collaborative engineering-first culture with investment in automation, quality, and developer experience.
- Multi-cloud evolution roadmap offering technical depth and growth opportunities.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
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About ACI Worldwide
ACI Worldwide builds payment processing and fraud prevention software for banks, merchants, and billers, delivered as on-premise and cloud services. Its portfolio spans real-time payments, card and merchant acquiring, bill payment, and risk management. Founded in 1975 and publicly traded on NASDAQ (ACIW), the company is headquartered in Elkhorn, Nebraska and serves financial institutions and retailers globally.