DevOps Engineer

Job Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Trivandrum

Experience Required: 6+ years

Mandatory Skills: DevOps, GitLab, GitOps, CI/CD

Who we are:

At UST, we help the world’s best organizations grow and succeed through transformation. Bringing together the right talent, tools, and ideas, we work with our client to co-create lasting change. Together, with over 30,000 employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at UST.com

Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, and CI/CD automation practices. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable deployment pipelines, driving GitOps-based infrastructure and application management, supporting Release on Demand processes, and ensuring operational visibility through monitoring and observability solutions. This role requires close collaboration with development teams to improve deployment efficiency, reliability, and platform scalability

The Opportunity:

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Implement and manage GitOps practices for infrastructure and application delivery.
• Manage repository structures, version control strategies, and deployment workflows through GitOps principles.
• Configure and maintain pipeline orchestration, triggers, and scheduling mechanisms.
• Drive Release on Demand (RoD) processes to enable faster, controlled, and reliable production releases.
• Ensure secure handling of configuration and deployment artifacts within CI/CD environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize CI/CD pipeline performance and reliability.
• Utilize Datadog dashboards and logs to provide operational visibility and support incident analysis.
• Collaborate with development and engineering teams to integrate DevOps best practices across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Improve deployment frequency and reduce failure rates through automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support containerized application deployment and management using Docker.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, availability, and scalability standards across the CI/CD ecosystem.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Datadog dashboards, logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with release automation and deployment strategies such as Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling deployments.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and security scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with GitLab Runner and pipeline optimization.
• Knowledge of incident management, monitoring, alerting, and operational observability.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong hands-on experience in GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, and CI/CD automation.
• Experience managing deployment workflows in enterprise-scale environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively with development, QA, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams.

What we believe:

We’re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we’ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion and to place people at the centre of everything we do.

Humility:

We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity:

Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity:

We honour our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.

• To support and promote the values of UST.

• Comply with all Company policies and procedures