On-Premise DevOps Engineer

Ideal candidate for this role is a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 6+ years of experience and strong hands-on expertise in managing on-premises, self-hosted infrastructure and CI/CD platforms. The candidate should have solid production experience with OpenShift, Jenkins/CloudBees, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Linux, along with strong Python backend development and system-design skills. The role requires someone who can independently design, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize infrastructure while building reliable, scalable, and highly available platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/CloudBees, incorporating artifact management and code-quality gates.

• Architect, administer, and maintain CI/CD tooling infrastructure, including Jenkins controllers and agents, artifact repositories, and code-quality servers.

• Manage Jenkins/CI-CD platform upgrades, plugins, configurations, backups, high availability, and access controls.

• Operate and maintain OpenShift clusters in production, including capacity planning, upgrades, RBAC, networking, ingress, and workload optimization.

• Own infrastructure monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, including PromQL, dashboards, SLOs, and alert tuning.

• Set up and maintain ELK for centralized application logging, including log parsing, indexing, and retention.

• Drive resource and infrastructure optimization by analyzing utilization, rightsizing workloads, and providing recommendations to stakeholders.

• Develop custom backend services, REST APIs, and integrations using Python.

• Design and maintain PR-DR capabilities for critical infrastructure, including replication, failover/failback, and periodic DR drills.

• Manage supporting databases, including installation, backup/restore, replication, monitoring, and performance tuning.

• Troubleshoot issues across the technology stack, including CI/CD failures, OpenShift, storage, networking, and infrastructure issues.

• Develop and maintain technical runbooks and documentation.

• Mentor engineers and contribute to improving platform engineering practices.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or a related role.

• Strong hands-on experience administering OpenShift in production environments.

• Strong experience with Jenkins/CloudBees, including declarative pipelines and Groovy shared libraries.

• Good understanding of CI/CD platform architecture, including HA, distributed build agents, and scalability.

• Hands-on experience implementing and managing PR-DR, including replication, failover/failback, and RTO/RPO requirements.

• Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar, including backups, restores, and replication.

• Experience managing artifact repositories and code-quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

• Strong Python development experience, including backend services, REST APIs, and integrations.

• Strong system-design skills with an understanding of scalability, reliability, and failure handling.

• Good experience with Linux administration and shell scripting.

• Working knowledge of networking, TLS, secrets management, and security hardening.

• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code and GitOps, such as Ansible, Helm, Argo CD, or similar tools.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to work across infrastructure and application layers.