Job Description

R1 India is proud to be recognized among the Top 20 of India's Best Companies to Work For 2025 by the Great Place to Work® Institute, marking our third consecutive year of climbing the ranks - from Top 50 in 2023 to Top 25 in 2024, and now amongst the Top 20. This achievement is a testament to the exceptional workplace culture we have collectively cultivated and reflects our unwavering commitment to employee well-being, inclusion, and diversity. Our accolades also highlight our excellence in healthcare, support for millennials, women, diversity, and health and wellness.

With over 30,000 employees globally and a robust presence in India, comprising over 17,000 employees across Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai, we foster an inclusive culture where every team member feels valued and empowered. Our mission is to transform the healthcare industry by driving efficiency for healthcare systems, hospitals, and physician practices, continuously striving to make healthcare work better for everyone.

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Sr. DevOps Engineer to drive faster releases, scalability, and reliability across our engineering and production environments. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in IT, with a strong background in DevOps, infrastructure automation, cloud computing, CI/CD, and team leadership.

As a Sr Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in modernizing our infrastructure, streamlining our deployment pipelines, and enhancing our DevSecOps posture. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers and work closely with development, QA, security, and IT teams to implement best practices and deliver world-class DevOps capabilities.

The ideal candidate MUST HAVE hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ARM, and possess a strong background in team and stakeholder management. This role requires a strategic thinker who is outcome-oriented and capable of driving deployment automation and one-click deployment solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the DevOps team, mentoring, and fostering a culture of innovation and ownership.
Design, implement, and manage robust, scalable, and secure CI/CD pipelines to support product development and release cycles.
Drive the infrastructure as code (IaC) adoption using tools like Terraform.
Spearhead DevSecOps initiatives by integrating security controls and checks in CI/CD pipelines.
Oversee and optimize cloud infrastructure (Azure), ensuring cost-efficiency, scalability, and availability.
Define and enforce DevOps best practices, including environment provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and incident management.
Collaborate with software engineering and QA teams to enable faster and reliable deployments.
Set and track metrics related to build, deployment, availability, reliability (SLAs/SLOs), and team efficiency.
Own and evolve the incident response and root cause analysis processes to reduce MTTR and improve platform resilience.
Manage vendor relationships, licensing, and third-party integrations related to DevOps tooling.
Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve team capabilities and system performance
Design and implement Azure Architecture solutions.
Creating POCs for solutions in .Net/Python.

Required Qualifications:

10+ years of overall experience with at least 5+ years in implementing scalable DevOps pipelines and processes.
Proven experience in managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) at scale.
Strong expertise in CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
Hands-on experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.
Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and observability tools such as Log Analytics.
Experience in integrating security practices into the DevOps lifecycle (DevSecOps).
Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage roadmaps, and align DevOps initiatives with business and product goals.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Strong problem-solving skills with a passion for automation and performance optimization.
Strong understanding of Azure Architecture.

Preferred Qualifications