Sr. DevOps Engineer

Role Overview 

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will serve as a technical expert within the DevOps team, contributing to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of scalable and secure delivery pipelines. You will work across US and India-based teams to standardize DevOps practices, improve automation, and enhance deployment reliability. 

You will collaborate closely with product engineering and the SRE organization to ensure DevOps systems support observability, rollback capability, and operational readiness  while maintaining a primary focus on DevOps execution and platform engineering excellence. 

Reporting Line 

This role reports to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, NOV Digital, and works in close partnership with the DevOps and SRE teams to support reliable, scalable delivery pipelines. 

Your Impact 

Technical Leadership 

Serve as a senior technical contributor within the DevOps team, guiding best practices in automation, CI/CD design, and infrastructure-as-code. Influence architecture decisions that impact deployment speed and reliability. 

Automation & Platform Excellence 

Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines to ensure scalability, security, observability, and repeatability across environments. Identify opportunities to reduce manual intervention and eliminate delivery bottlenecks. 

Cross-Team Collaboration 

Partner with engineering teams to translate application requirements into automated, production-ready delivery workflows. Work with SRE to ensure deployments support monitoring, rollback strategies, and operational instrumentation. 

Operational Readiness 

Improve deployment stability by enhancing validation gates, testing automation, release processes, and configuration management practices. 

Key Responsibilities 

CI/CD & Pipeline Engineering 

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for multiple applications 

• Standardize pipeline templates and reusable automation components 

• Improve deployment frequency and reduce failure rates through automation enhancements 

• Automate environment provisioning and configuration management 

• Reduce manual operational tasks through scripting and tooling improvements  

Security & DevSecOps 

• Integrate security scanning, vulnerability checks, and policy enforcement into pipelines 

• Ensure compliance controls are automated and consistently applied 

• Support secure secret management and credential handling practices 

DevOps–SRE Partnership 

• Collaborate with SRE to ensure deployments align with reliability and observability standards 

• Support incident response by improving deployment traceability and rollback mechanisms 

• Align DevOps automation with operational requirements defined by SRE 

Technical Expertise & Qualifications 

Demonstrated hands-on expertise across modern DevOps ecosystems, including: 

• CI/CD & Automation: Designing and operating scalable pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI, or similar platforms 

• Containers & Orchestration: Building and deploying containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestration platforms) 

• Cloud Platforms: Operating production workloads in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments 

• Observability & Monitoring: Integrating metrics, logging, and alerting solutions such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms into deployment workflows 

• Source Control & Branching Strategies: Strong Git proficiency and experience with trunk-based development, Gitflow, or comparable branching models 

• Infrastructure & Virtualization: Experience with infrastructure-as-code and virtualized or container-based environments 

• 8 years of experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles with hands-on ownership of production delivery pipelines and cloud infrastructure