DevOps Specialist, GitHub Azure

Founded in 1910 KONE is a global leader that provides elevators escalators and automatic building doors as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our worlds cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make peoples journeys safe convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

KONEs vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease effectiveness and experience to our customers and line with our strategy Sustainable Success with Customers we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world escalators and elevators with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop transform manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity business growth and technological curious mindset and innovation areat the core of everything we do and this makes us an integral part ofKONEs success.

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About the Role

KONEs Data Center & Cloud Platforms team is a core enabler of the companys digital transformation. As a GitHub Enterprise Specialist you will evolve KONEs GitHub ecosystemensuring secure compliant and scalable developer workflows while accelerating productivity through AIpowered engineering capabilities.

This role blends GitHub Enterprise administration DevOps and Platform Engineering and emerging AI/agentic automation to shape the future of software delivery across KONE.

What You Will Do

Current Responsibilities

GitHub Enterprise Administration

• Manage and maintain GitHub Enterprise organizations accounts teams and permissions.

• Configure and govern organizational settings policies repository structures branching strategies and protection rules.

• Enforce security controls including SSO MFA audit logging permission and access guardrails and identity governance.

DevOps & CI/CD Enablement

• Configure standardize and support GitHub Actionsbased CI/CD pipelines.

• Develop reusable GitHub Actions workflows composite actions and pipeline templates.

• Operate and optimize GitHub Actions runners (hosted and self-hosted).

• Integrate GitHub with cloud platforms (Azure AWS) and secrets management solutions (e.g. Azure Key Vault AWS Secrets Manager).

AIEnhanced Developer Productivity

• Enable and administer GitHub Copilot and emerging agentic AI development tools.

• Provide onboarding training and best practices for developers adopting AI-assisted workflows.

• Support infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns and templates for GitHub platform automation.

Future Roadmap Responsibilities

AIDriven DevOps & Automation

• Implement predictive pipeline capabilities that anticipate build failures optimize deployment timing and surface recommended remediations.

• Develop self-healing CI/CD pipelines leveraging autonomous AI agents for rollback mitigation and recovery.

• Build templates for next-generation AI-powered CI/CD workflows.

AI Governance Security & Compliance

• Use AI-based tools to enforce compliance policies detect repository anomalies and identify security risks.

• Deploy observability monitoring and analytics for AI-assisted workflows and autonomous agents.

Agentic Systems & Workflow Orchestration

• Contribute to orchestration of multi-agent systems supporting backlog refinement automated documentation and release planning.

• Evolve KONEs GitHub landscape to support scalable autonomous engineering practices.

What Were Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in GitHub Enterprise Administration & Governance in a large-scale environment.

• Strong hands-on experience of DevOps and Platform Engineering: CI/CD workflows reusable pipeline templates operating GitHub Actions runners and Infrastructure-as-Code.

• Strong scripting and automation experience (Python Bash PowerShell)

• Experience integrating GitHub with AWS and/or Azure

• Solid knowledge on Security & Compliance. Applying DevSecOps practices: scanning policies guardrails and secrets management. Maintaining compliance and audit readiness in large-scale environments.

• Experience with Developer Enablement & Communication: Ability to support onboarding training and best practices for large developer communities. Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g. GitHub Copilot).

• Understanding of agentic AI concepts such as autonomous agents and orchestration.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AI-driven automation and predictive DevOps tooling.

• Knowledge and exposure to predictive CI/CD pipelines anomaly detection and AI automation patterns

• Understanding of cross-cloud caching artifact performance tuning and large-scale workflow optimization.

• Experience with platform-level observability monitoring dashboards and workflow analytics

• Knowledge of building resilient selfhealing pipelines

Why Join Us

• Be the spearhead of the transformation of KONEs engineering platforms.

• Work with cutting-edge technologies across GitHub Enterprise cloud platforms and AI automation.

• Build foundational capabilities for thousands of developers globally.

• Join a collaborative forward-thinking team shaping the future of KONEs digital platforms.

At KONE we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is being a great place to work we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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