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Senior DevOps Engineer

IBM

Software Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Posted on Feb 21, 2026

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platforms, working closely with leads, architects and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure. You will own CI/CD pipelines, drive infrastructure automation, and lead platform reliability initiatives, while applying and advancing cloud, security, and DevSecOps best practices. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design, build, and operate secure on-premise platforms on Kubernetes and OpenShift

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using SPS or Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, and Tekton

• Build and manage Kubernetes Operators and automation frameworks

• Implement infrastructure automation using Ansible and Terraform

• Develop platform tooling and integrations using Go (Golang).

• Manage Helm charts and deployment lifecycle across environments.

• Implement DevSecOps practices including vulnerability scanning and compliance controls.

• Design and operate cryptographic and key management systems ( HSM, PKI, TLS).

• Automate certificate lifecycle management and encryption policies.

• Support hybrid cloud, air-gapped, and regulated deployments

• Implement monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering solutions

• Collaborate with security, product, and engineering teams on platform strategy

• Participate in incident response, RCA, and platform optimization initiatives

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps / Cloud / Platform Engineering

• Strong expertise in CI/CD and release automation

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift (Cloud and On-Prem)

• Advanced automation skills using Ansible and IaC tools

• Proficiency in Python or Go (Golang)

• Strong knowledge of Helm, Docker, and container platforms

• Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, and network security best practices

• Hands-on experience with cryptographic systems and key management

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience developing Golang-based Kubernetes Operators for product microservices.

• Exposure to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and hybrid crypto models.

• Experience with IBM / AWS /Azure/GCP and enterprise product deployments.

• Experience with SaaS deployment and multi-tenant platforms

• Basic programming or scripting knowledge (Python or Go)

Years of Experience:
4 - 8

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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