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Job description
DevOps Engineer – Digital Services Airports (DSA)
Location: Pune, India
About the role
Vanderlande provides baggage handling systems for 600 airports worldwide, moving more than 4 billion pieces of baggage each year. These systems generate large volumes of operational data, creating opportunities to build digital services that help our airport customers understand and improve their operations.
As a DevOps Engineer within Digital Services Airports (DSA), you will help build, operate and continuously improve the cloud platform and services behind our airport digital solutions.
You will work in an agile, multidisciplinary team with hands-on responsibility across Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps, Java/Spring Boot APIs, security, networking and observability.
What you’ll do
- Build, maintain and operate cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Manage infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Develop reusable CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Bamboo or similar technologies.
- Implement and maintain GitOps deployments with ArgoCD and Helm.
- Develop, maintain and troubleshoot REST APIs and backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
- Deploy and operate Java/Spring Boot services using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Manage and troubleshoot Azure networking, including private connectivity, ingress, DNS, load balancing, NSGs, firewalls and TLS/certificates.
- Work with Azure RBAC, managed identities, service principals and Azure Key Vault.
- Improve platform and service reliability through monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management and automation.
- Embed security by design and shift-left security throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Improve developer experience through reusable components, automation, documentation and standardized delivery practices.
- Support the deployment and operation of digital services for airport customers worldwide.
- Help strengthen DevOps practices, automation and operational ownership across DSA.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8–10 years of professional experience, including at least 5–6 years in DevOps or platform engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, AKS, Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, Bamboo or comparable tooling.
- Experience with ArgoCD, Helm and GitOps-based delivery.
- Practical knowledge of Java and Spring Boot, including REST API and backend service development.
- Understanding of microservices and API-based integrations.
- Experience deploying and troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes environments.
- Good knowledge of Azure networking, identity, security and Key Vault.
- Scripting experience with Bash and/or PowerShell.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, observability and automated testing.
- Experience working in Agile environments using Scrum and/or Kanban.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving and communication skills.
- A collaborative mindset with the ability to help others strengthen their DevOps practices.