About The Position
Columbia Sportswear is powered by technology that connects four global brands, a worldwide supply chain, and 500+ retail stores. Our Columbia Digital Technology (CDT) organization is expanding its Global Capability Center (GCC) in India to help drive our next phase of cloud transformation.
As a Senior DevOps Developer on our Developer Experience Team, you will lead the design and evolution of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), monitoring/observability, and deployment frameworks. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive scalable, reliable, and high-performance service delivery in a cloud-first environment, while mentoring junior engineers and influencing DevOps best practices across the organization.
How You'll Make a Difference
- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for cloud services and microservices.
- Define and advocate for DevOps best practices, standards, and tooling across teams.
- Implement infrastructure as code using a Test Driven Development framework and common tools such as Azure/AWS SDK, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, and CloudFormation to provision and maintain cloud resources.
- Automate the build, test, deploy lifecycle using tools such as Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Collaborate with software development teams to enable reliable deployments, smooth roll-outs, and rollback strategies.
- Monitor and tune application performance, infrastructure health, and system stability; introduce observability (metrics, logs, tracing).
- Work in an Agile-DevOps environment: story refinement, sprint cadence.
- Ensure security, scalability, availability, and cost-efficiency of the infrastructure.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, fostering growth and knowledge sharing.
- Assist in incident investigation and root-cause analysis when production issues arise; drive continuous improvement.
YOU ARE
- 8+ years of software development or cloud engineering experience.
- Experience implementing CodeQL and other GitHub Advanced Security tools.
- Experience implementing Agentic CI/CD and MCP servers.
- Experience leading DevOps initiatives or driving platform engineering strategies.
- Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP) is a plus.
- Certifications such as Azure DevOps Engineer or Azure Solutions Architect.
- Experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Application Insights, Log Analytics) and logging/tracing.
YOU HAVE
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or a related software engineering role.
- Proficient in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, C#, Bash).
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (services such as App Services, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Kubernetes, Azure SQL, Synapse, etc.).
- Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines and release automation (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, or similar).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and RESTful APIs.
- Familiarity with Agile software development practices and working in cross-functional teams.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to work across geographies (on-shore/off-shore).
#Hybrid
This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company. 
