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Senior DevOps Engineer (Full-Time Employee)

Location: Hyderabad, India

F5 Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (FTE) to join our innovative team in Hyderabad, India. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced DevOps solutions to accelerate software delivery, improve system reliability, and drive a culture of automation, security, and collaboration at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines using industry-leading tools.

• Architect and implement robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for scalable, secure on-prem and cloud environments.

• Drive automation of provisioning, deployment, testing, and monitoring leveraging scripting languages (Python, Bash).

• Develop and manage containerized applications and orchestrate workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Utilize cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) to optimize infrastructure performance, resilience, and cost.

• Implement and support continuous monitoring, logging, and alerting utilizing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL).

• Apply configuration management solutions (Ansible or other - Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack).

• Champion DevSecOps practices by integrating security into all automated pipelines and infrastructure.

• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex deployment, infrastructure, and system issues.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineering, QA, product management, security, and IT operations throughout agile, cross-disciplinary teams.

• Establish and maintain clear, comprehensive documentation including procedures, runbooks, technical solutions to support team knowledge and operational excellence.

• Mentor, coach, and provide technical leadership to DevOps engineers and advocate for best practices across engineering teams.

• Drive process improvements, evaluate emerging technologies, and contribute to strategic DevOps roadmaps.
  

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Extensive experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code: (Terraform/OpenTofu, AWS CloudFormation)

• Advanced scripting abilities using Python and Bash/Shell.

• Extensive experience with containers (Docker, Podman) and Kubernetes orchestration.

• Strong expertise across major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Solid knowledge of monitoring and logging stacks: Prometheus/Grafana, OTEL.

• Proven track record with configuration management tools: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack.

• Skilled in Git version control and workflows (GitHub, GitLab).

• Advanced infrastructure security skills with hands-on expertise in tools such as Hashicorp Vault, Semgrep, and integrated CI/CD pipeline security.

• Experience with artifact management (Artifactory, Docker Registry).

• Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills in cloud, container, and distributed system environments.

• Excellent written/verbal communication and documentation capabilities.

• Demonstrated success working in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities such as mentoring, technical guidance, and best practices advocacy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.

• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting production systems in DevOps or cloud engineering roles (minimum 5 years with direct DevOps focus).

• Proven expertise in IaC, automation, and cloud security at enterprise scale.

• Significant experience with high-availability architectures, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and cost optimization strategies.

• Exposure to multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.

• Prior leadership, mentoring, or team lead experience strongly preferred.