Technical Lead

Job Description - Senior Developer / Technical Lead

Experience

8-10 years of relevant experience in Software Development, Platform Development, Systems Engineering, or Automation Engineering.

Role Summary

Hands-on Senior Developer / Technical Lead responsible for designing and developing platform solutions and automation across RHEL/Linux, Platform Security, Security Compliance, Jenkins, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes. The role combines technical leadership, hands-on development, troubleshooting, security/compliance automation, and CI/CD integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and maintenance of platform software, utilities, and automation for RHEL/Linux.

• Develop robust Shell/Python-based automation for configuration, deployment, validation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

• Design and implement platform security and security compliance automation.

• Drive RHEL security hardening, secure configuration, vulnerability and compliance validation.

• Design and integrate solutions with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.

• Develop and deploy solutions across Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes environments.

• Design reusable, scalable, secure, and maintainable automation components.

• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex platform, security, CI/CD, and deployment issues.

• Conduct technical design and code reviews and drive development best practices.

• Collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, Security, Architecture, and Product teams.

• Mentor developers and provide technical guidance to the team.

• Drive continuous improvement in automation, platform reliability, security, compliance, and engineering efficiency.

• Evaluate and leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude, and Gemini for coding, debugging, refactoring, testing, and documentation.

Required Skills

RHEL / Platform

• Strong hands-on expertise in RHEL/Linux.

• Strong understanding of Linux configuration, processes, services, networking, permissions, logs, and troubleshooting.

• Strong Shell, Python scripting skills.

• Experience with Linux/system-level development or automation.

Platform Security & Compliance

• Strong understanding of RHEL/Linux security and hardening.

• Experience with secure configuration and security control validation.

• Understanding of authentication, authorization, permissions, certificates, and vulnerabilities.

• Strong understanding of security compliance requirements and validation.

• Experience automating security and compliance checks.

CI/CD & Cloud

• Strong experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong working knowledge of Git.

• Working/strong knowledge of Azure.

• Hands-on experience with Docker.

• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s).

• Experience with OpenShift is an advantage.

Development

• Strong Shell, Python scripting and software development skills.

• C++ or Java experience preferred.

• Understanding of APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications is an advantage.

AI-Assisted Development

• Practical experience with Cursor, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools.

• Ability to use AI for code generation, debugging, refactoring, testing, and documentation.

• Ability to validate AI-generated code for quality, security, and maintainability.

Technical Leadership

• Own technical design and delivery of platform development and automation initiatives.

• Translate requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.

• Define and enforce coding, design, security, and automation standards.

• Conduct design and code reviews.

• Identify technical risks and drive resolution.

• Mentor developers and provide technical direction.

• Drive modernization and continuous improvement of platform solutions.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Senior Developer / Technical Lead with strong expertise across Platform Security, Secur RHEL, Shell, Python, ity Compliance, Jenkins, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Strong technical leadership, troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and collaboration skills are essential.