Lead DevOps Engineer

DevOps Technical Lead

Eurofins IT Solutions Bengaluru Karnataka India

With facilities in Europe the United States and Asia Eurofins Genomics is an internationally leading provider of DNA sequencing services genotyping services DNA synthesis products and bioinformatics services for pharma diagnostics food agriculture biotechnological and research markets.

Genomics business is enabled by global engineering teams working on next-generation applications and Laboratory information management systems (LIMS). As a DevOps Technical Lead you will leverage your strong technical and operational expertise to design build and govern scalable DevOps platforms and cloud infrastructure. The platforms you enable are mission-critical and directly support laboratory operations customer-facing applications and global business workflows.

Working closely with architects developers SREs cloud engineers and security teams you will deliver highly reliable secure and automated deployment platforms. You will be empowered to influence technical decisions drive DevOps standards and navigate the complex Eurofins global technology landscape. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who upholds a high-performance engineering culture and serves as a mentor and role model for DevOps engineers and application teams.

This role reports to the Lead Architect

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role as DevOps Technical Lead you will be responsible for designing implementing and operating enterprise-grade DevOps and cloud platforms across Azure. You will own CI/CD pipelines release governance environment automation and operational excellence while working with globally distributed teams including developers QA security SRE and infrastructure teams.

You will play a key role in standardizing DevOps practices enabling application modernization and ensuring production readiness for business-critical systems.

Specific Assignments:

• Lead the design implementation and governance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps across multiple applications and environments.
• Define and enforce DevOps standards for source control branching strategies artifact management and release promotions.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using Terraform for consistent and compliant environment provisioning.
• Own release management deployment planning and zero-downtime deployment strategies (Blue Green rolling deployments).
• Automate environment setup scaling and teardown including scripting for daily operational activities.
• Manage and maintain performance and non-production environments to support performance soak and resilience testing.
• Collaborate closely with Group Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure platform setup meets program compliance and governance requirements.
• Monitor platform health deployment success availability and performance KPIs and take corrective actions proactively.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance design reviews and mentoring to DevOps engineers and development teams.
• Support modernization programs including migration of applications to modern cloud-native architectures.
• Document DevOps frameworks pipeline templates operational runbooks and best practices.

 
Skills required:

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline design and release orchestration.
• Proven expertise in Azure Cloud services including App Services AKS Azure Functions Application Gateway APIM Azure Firewall and Storage.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Strong understanding of source control management branching strategies and artifact repositories (NuGet).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Strong scripting skills using PowerShell and/or Python for automation.
• Experience managing multi-region and multi-subscription Azure environments.
• Ability to work effectively with global stakeholders across geographies.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 1014 years of IT experience with at least 7 years in DevOps / Platform Engineering roles.
• Experience supporting regulated or enterprise-scale platforms.
• Exposure to performance engineering security hardening and operational excellence frameworks.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams especially US and Europe.

 Tech Stack:

• CI/CD & DevOps: Azure DevOps (Pipelines Repos Artifacts)
• Cloud Platform: Azure (App Services AKS Azure Functions Application Gateway APIM Azure Firewall Storage etc)
• Languages & Scripting: PowerShell Python
• Application Stack: Angular 12 Core Java / Spring Framework MVC/WebForms WCF
• Databases: SQL Server MongoDB
• Infrastructure as Code: Bicep Terraform
• Tools: Azure Monitor Application Insights Security and Compliance tools

Additional Information :

Personal Skills:

• Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude;
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential;
• Entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility to change;
• Very good English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing);
• Structured and clear writing skills;
• Proven ability to solve complex business problems using analytical reasoning;
• Demonstrated positive attitude self-motivated team player.

Required Qualifications:

• MCA or Bachelors in Engineering Computer Science or equivalent.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA: Eurofins has a strong focus on Performance Management system. This includes quarterly calibrations half-yearly reviews and annual reviews. The KPIs shall be set and may vary slightly between projects. These will be clearly communicated documented during the first 30 days of your joining.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time