Kubernetes Senior Technical Lead - Azure DevOps

Job Description

Kubernetes Senior Technical Lead - Azure DevOps

Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Job Summary

Bank of Ireland is embarking on a journey to transform how it develops software used to support its customers. Were looking for hands on, proactive DevOps Engineers who are strategic thinkers, but also more than capable to roll up their sleeves and implement key initiatives

The DevOps senior Engineer role is a role within the bank and you will need to be able to understand the complex requirements of delivering software in a regulated environment, have a detailed understanding of the technical building blocks used to build / test / deploy our applications, and can communicate this to both a non-technical and technical audience.

Key Responsibilities

You will be a strong, technical & proactive engineer who will be responsible for:

• Working closely with our engineering teams to understand their product requirements, how they build / test / deploy their software applications
• Provide guidance on DevOps tools, environments & best practices to our teams that have been developed by the DevOps Centre of Excellence (DCOE)
• Contribute to the DCOE initiatives, either in the form of documentation and best practices or helping to deliver strategic solutions to the bank that work for our engineering teams.
• You are able to promote DevOps internally within the bank, and be an advocate for clean, rapid & robust software delivery pipelines within the bank
• You have a excellent technical background and you can seamlessly move from the presentation deck to the code editor and help realize our strategic ambitions

What is the Opportunity

To work with our Engineering Factories & DevOps Centre of Excellence to build best in class in delivery pipelines.

Skill Requirements

Essential Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 8 years in either a software development role where you have excellent exposure to releasing applications into a production environment or an operational facing role where youve had to deploy and support production type workloads
• You can articulate technical designs and processes to both engineering teams and non-technical audiences
• Exposure to the requirements of delivering software in regulated environments, and comfortable with a large number of stakeholders who need to understand how your processes are designed and delivered.
• Excellent communication skills and comfortable with Email and other team collaboration tools.
• Experience using the Atlassian tool stack - Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket & Crucible

Other Requirements

If youve done software development, we would look for:

• Excellent skills in one of the main scripting languages such as python, perl, ruby and their test frameworks
• Strong development background in languages such as C, C#, Java, Golang and a thorough understanding of their test frameworks
• You have developed applications that have involved the delivery and consumption of APIs
• Exposure to one or more cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP) and youre comfortable with how to provision infrastructure using the portal UI.
• Excellent hands on experience in CI tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo etc.
• Youre used tools like Ansible / Puppet / Chef to deliver infrastructure, and you know how to test them thoroughly
• Youve used Terraform to build cloud based environments, or private cloud services
• Docker and orchestration environments such as Kubernetes / OpenShift exposure

OR

If youve been more involved in the operational side of things, we like to see something like the following:

• You have a through understanding of how the infrastructure is managed and provisioned in virtualized environments such as VMWare
• Youve used configuration management tools like Ansible / Puppet / Chef in anger and have a thorough understanding of their test frameworks
• In depth experience of one or more of the cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP) and can automate infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates etc. Certifications are nice, but hands on experience preferable.
• Youve been on the receiving side of poorly specified and tested software, had to make last minutes fixes and swore this was never going to happen again. You are willing to use test first development to help overcome these last minute surprises.
• Youve configured and managed container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, OpenShift and understand workload lifecycles in these environments
• In depth experience of configuration management orchestration tools such as Ansible Tower / Chef Server
• Thorough understanding of SSL & Cryptography and solutions for automation & management of SSL Certificates for applications

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Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, youll supercharge your potential. Youll find your career. And youll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.