Senior Technical Specialist

Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · DevOps · Cloud Engineering · Site Reliability Engineering · Software Engineering

In short

As a Senior Technical Specialist in Hyderabad, you will leverage strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, or SRE within cloud-native environments. You will be responsible for building and managing CI/CD platforms, embedding security and compliance, and implementing Infrastructure as Code. Banking or core banking platform experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Build and run CI/CD platforms, pipeline templates, reusable automation, self-service workflows, and developer tooling.
  • Implement engineering controls across build, test, release, deployment, rollback, evidence capture, and operational readiness.
  • Embed security and compliance into pipelines, including vulnerability scanning, dependency checks, static analysis, secrets scanning, policy-as-code, approval gates, and audit evidence generation.
  • Standardize platform delivery using Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and automation practices.
  • Support cloud-native platforms, preferably GCP and GKE, including identity, networking, security controls, Kubernetes deployments, and operational support.
  • Design golden paths, reusable engineering patterns, paved roads, self-service portals, or platform APIs to improve engineering productivity.
  • Ensure secure software delivery, supply chain security, access controls, secrets management, certificates, artefact management, and environment governance.
  • Implement observability and operational readiness, including dashboards, alerts, deployment health, service health, incident response, and continual improvement.

Requirements

  • Strong experience as a Platform Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Developer Experience Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Cloud Engineer in cloud-native environments.
  • Hands-on experience building and running CI/CD platforms, pipeline templates, reusable automation, self-service workflows, and developer tooling.
  • Strong working knowledge of CI/CD tooling and engineering controls across build, test, release, deployment, rollback, evidence capture, and operational readiness.
  • Experience embedding security and compliance into pipelines, including vulnerability scanning, dependency checks, static analysis, secrets scanning, policy-as-code, approval gates, and audit evidence generation.
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and automation practices to standardize platform delivery and reduce manual intervention.
  • Good understanding of cloud-native platforms, preferably GCP and GKE, including identity, networking, security controls, Kubernetes deployments, and operational support.
  • Experience designing golden paths, reusable engineering patterns, paved roads, self-service portals, or platform APIs that improve engineering productivity while maintaining control.
  • Good understanding of secure software delivery, supply chain security, access controls, secrets management, certificates, artefact management, and environment governance.
  • Experience with observability and operational readiness, including dashboards, alerts, deployment health, service health, incident response, and continual improvement.
  • Knowledge of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, operational readiness, automation, and toil reduction.
  • Understanding of change management, audit, risk, evidence capture, and compliance expectations within a regulated environment.
  • Experience with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Argo CD, Backstage, or equivalent developer platform and deployment tooling.
  • Experience with policy-as-code, Open Policy Agent, SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, SBOM generation, or software supply chain security tooling.
  • Experience with GCP, GKE, Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, Apigee, Kafka, Dynatrace, or OpenTelemetry.

Desired Qualifications

  • Banking or core banking platform experience.
  • Experience working with Thought Machine Vault.
  • Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems and business-critical regulated platforms.

Benefits

  • Supercharge your potential.
  • Find your career.
  • Find your spark.
  • A place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.
  • Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.
#Platform Engineering#DevSecOps#Developer Experience#Site Reliability Engineering#DevOps#Cloud Engineering#CI/CD#Automation#Terraform#GCP#GKE#Kubernetes#Security#Compliance#Observability
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Company

HCLTech

Job Posted

1 day ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

On Site

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

Hyderabad, India

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