Senior Engineer - DevOps

The Opportunity

We have an outstanding career opportunity for Senior Engineer- DevOps at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune locations to join the Hyperscale (HSX) Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong software development, automation, infrastructure, and system-level troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work across complex distributed environments spanning compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, and cloud platforms.

In this role, you will design and develop automation frameworks, enhance provisioning and deployment capabilities, troubleshoot complex product and customer issues, and contribute to improving the reliability, scalability, serviceability, and overall quality of the Hyperscale platform. You will collaborate closely with development, QA, support, field engineering, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions and resolve complex customer issues.

What you’ll do…

• Design, develop, and maintain automation using Python, Shell scripting, and Ansible for server provisioning, configuration, deployment, upgrades, and patching of Hyperscale environments.
• Develop reusable Ansible roles, modules, and playbooks to standardize and simplify product deployment and infrastructure configuration.
• Build and enhance automation frameworks for deploying and configuring distributed system components.
• Automate deployment and configuration of technologies such as HAProxy, Corosync, and other clustering, high-availability, and monitoring components.
• Develop and maintain automation for S3 deployment, configuration, and validation/testing.
• Deploy and validate software across multiple operating systems and hardware configurations to ensure compatibility and reliability.
• Work with modern bare-metal provisioning frameworks such as RackN and extend existing frameworks when required.
• Develop tools and scripts that improve engineering productivity, diagnostics, deployment, testing, and operational efficiency.
• Navigate and maintain existing C++ and XML-based codebases, making targeted enhancements and fixes when required.
• Effectively use AI-assisted software development tools, including GitHub Copilot and similar technologies, to accelerate development, code understanding, debugging, test creation, and modernization of legacy components.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing development and test environments.
• Automate creation, modification, and deletion of virtual machines and infrastructure resources on VMware and Hyper-V.
• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Python libraries and frameworks such as Boto3, Paramiko, Fabric, and PyYAML.
• Configure and troubleshoot compute, storage, and networking resources across cloud, virtualized, and on-premises environments.
• Automate bare-metal operating system and HSX ISO installation using PXE/network boot technologies, including RackN and Cobbler.
• Use Git-based development workflows for source control, collaboration, code reviews, and release management
• Product Engineering, Troubleshooting & Customer Issue Resolution. Analyze system logs, application logs, crash information, error reports, network behavior, storage behavior, and performance metrics to identify root causes.
• Build and maintain engineering environments for functional, integration, regression, upgrade, and compatibility testing across major and minor product releases.
• Validate product functionality across supported hardware platforms, operating systems, hypervisors, cloud environments, and infrastructure configurations.

Who you are…

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 4 or more Years of experience.
• Strong software development experience with Python and Shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management and automation technologies, particularly Ansible.
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems, system administration, networking, storage, and distributed system concepts.
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware and/or Hyper-V.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift.
• Experience developing infrastructure and system automation using Python libraries such as Boto3, Paramiko, Fabric, or PyYAML.
• Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning and network boot technologies such as PXE, RackN, or Cobbler.
• Working knowledge of Git and modern software development workflows.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex issues across application and infrastructure layers.
• Ability to read and understand existing C++ and XML code and make targeted changes when required.
• Experience troubleshooting production or customer environments and performing detailed root-cause analysis (RCA).
• Enterprise storage, backup, recovery, or data-management platforms preferred.
• Security and SaaS experience strongly preferred.