DevOps Platform Engineer – Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins & GitOps

Overview

Synechron is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer / OpenShift Administrator to automate deployment and configuration management, implement CI/CD pipelines, manage containerized environments, and support infrastructure and application reliability.

What you'll do

• Automate deployment and configuration management tasks to deliver consistent, repeatable, and scalable environments.
• Design, implement, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for containerized deployments.
• Manage deployments across native Kubernetes, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, AWS, OCI, and related platform environments.
• Configure and support service mesh capabilities for traffic management, service communication, observability, and security.
• Develop and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and Jenkins pipelines using Shared Libraries, Pipeline Code, Groovy, or Python scripting.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment and configuration management using tools such as ArgoCD.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and manage development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Use Terraform, Ansible, and other Infrastructure as Code tools to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, deployment, platform, networking, and application issues with development and operations teams.
• Implement and maintain logging, monitoring, dashboards, metrics, and alerts using ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Apply authentication and authorization controls for microservices and service-to-service communication.
• Develop or integrate REST and SOAP API consumers and publishers.
• Apply OAuth 2.0 standards to support secure API and application communication.
• Maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, and operational standards.
• Improve platform reliability, deployment frequency, recovery capability, security, transparency, resource efficiency, and sustainability.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience, including practical production experience with the required technologies.
• Practical hands-on experience implementing, configuring, and supporting service mesh solutions.
• Practical hands-on experience developing and managing workflow automation with GitHub Actions.
• Experience applying DevOps practices across development, deployment, operations, and continuous improvement.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision and manage infrastructure across different environments.
• Experience automating configuration management, deployment, and operational activities with Ansible.
• Strong understanding of Jenkins-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery.
• Experience developing or maintaining reusable Jenkins shared libraries.
• Experience creating and managing pipeline code using Groovy or Python scripting.
• Understanding of GitOps tools and practices, including ArgoCD.
• Experience deploying and managing workloads on native Kubernetes, OpenShift, or public cloud container platforms.
• Sound knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS, or OCI.
• Understanding of centralized logging and log analysis (ELK).
• Experience with monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and alerting (Prometheus and Grafana).
• Knowledge of API communication, including developing API consumers and publishers (REST and SOAP APIs).
• Understanding of OAuth 2.0 standards and application security flows.
• Sound knowledge of authentication and authorization processes for microservices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience or demonstrated technical capability may be considered.
• Commitment to continuous professional development through relevant training, certifications, knowledge sharing, and ongoing learning.

Nice to have

• Experience managing multiple containerized environments across public cloud and enterprise platforms.
• Experience integrating service mesh capabilities with observability, security, and traffic management.
• Experience implementing policy, quality, security, and compliance checks in CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with infrastructure testing, deployment validation, and automated rollback practices.
• Experience optimizing cloud resource utilization, operational cost, and infrastructure sustainability.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru - Bellandur (GTP).