Lead DevOps Engineer/Senior Lead DevOps Engineer - IFS.ai Platform (R&D)

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

We are on the lookout for dynamic, experienced technology enthusiasts to join our growing R&D Base Technology Team.

DevOps Engineers play a key role in ensuring that the solutions developed at IFS R&D can be reliably deployed, operated, and scaled in production while driving automation across the software delivery lifecycle.

A DevOps Engineer will design, develop, deploy, and maintain platform capabilities, cloud-native services, and automation solutions that improve the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of IFS platforms. The role combines hands-on engineering with solution design and service architecture responsibilities, requiring close collaboration with development teams, architects, and stakeholders.

In addition to adopting DevOps and GitOps best practices, the role contributes to the design of modern cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and platform services, ensuring they are observable, resilient, and operationally efficient. The successful candidate will leverage their technical expertise to build highly automated, scalable solutions while proactively driving continuous improvement across platforms, services, and engineering processes.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Identify opportunities for new or enhanced automations to drive efficiencies within the organization, producing designs and plans to address those opportunities
• Implementing GitOps / DevOps based automation to the IFS shared multi-tenant cloud-platform, supporting new application deployments and rollouts.
• Drive the maintenance and expansion of existing automations and related processes in the organization.
• Create documentation, presentation, and training material
• Engage with relevant stakeholders
• Share knowledge, guide, and train colleagues
• Contribute to activities related to market research and competitive analysis

Qualifications

• Demonstrable enterprise level experience in these areas:
  • Building large globally deployed multi-tenant cloud systems for high-availability and scalability
  • Designing and building DevOps / GitOps automation to support platform/application, using tools such as ArgoCD and Crossplane or equivalents
• 4-8 years of demonstrable enterprise level knowledge in
  • CICD Experience (e.g. GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, ADO, Jenkins, Bamboo or similar)
  • Container orchestration (K8s, helm)
  • Infra as Code / Config. Mgmt (terraform, ansible)
  • Containerization (Docker)
  • Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python, GoLang)
  • Working with cloud-based infrastructure in Azure (specifically AKS), AWS or GCP
    • Azure sepcific areas (or equivalent): AKS, Azure Networking, Azure Firewalls, Azure Front Door, Azure Container Registry, Azure Managed Identities, Azure Storage, Azure AI Services
• 5+ years of knowledge in Linux/Unix/Windows
• GitOps practices with tools such as ArgoCD and CrossPlane.
• Other relevant technical experience:
  • Full-stack experience across databases, application/web tier, networking/proxies/firewalls etc
  • MongoDB (Atlas)
  • Kafka (Confluent Kafka)
• Service Architecture and Solution Design
• Distributed Systems Concepts
• API Design and Integration Patterns
• Observability platforms (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor or equivalent)
• Messaging and Event Streaming Technologies (Kafka, NATS, Event Hub or equivalent)
• Willingness to accept challenges and show high level of enthusiasm.
• A University degree, or equivalent professional qualifications, in software/system engineering is essential.

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.