Senior DevOps Engineer - Ansible & Linux

Sr. DevOps Engineer (Ansible & Linux Expertise) Location : Bangalore, INContract Role : Job Overview : You'll develop robust deployment using Ansible for Fluence OS controls and integrating with different subsystems, like enclosures, PCS/BMS/RTU devices. As a hands-on member of the development team, you will also do the work of delivering a releasable Increment of product at the end of each Sprint, and support commissioning teams with bring up and diagnostics.Responsibilities : - Design, develop, and maintain real-time and offline Ansible-based deployment scripts for Fluence OS software across lab, factory, and site environments.- Own Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, and variables, ensuring idempotent, modular, and reusable automation.- Integrate deployment automation into CI/CD pipelines, including linting, testing, and validation of deployment artifacts.- Write and maintain unit and integration tests; participate in code reviews to uphold deployment quality and best practices.- Develop and support controls software deployment, integrating grid-scale battery energy storage systems and power conversion systems from industry-leading manufacturers.- Ensure deployments meet robustness, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability requirements.- Optimize latency, throughput, and reliability on Linux and embedded target platforms.- Provide technical mentorship through design discussions, documentation, and code reviews (no formal people management).- Deliver work within project timelines and support release commitments.- Track, manage, document, and report work using JIRA and Confluence, including deployment procedures and troubleshooting guides.Required Qualifications : - Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to produce clear customer-facing and internal technical documentation.- More than 10 Years of exp in the related Field.- Strong Ansible experience, including playbooks, roles, inventories, templates, and best practices.- Strong automation scripting experience using Bash and Python.- Experience with Docker containers, including Dockerfiles, image builds, troubleshooting, and Docker Compose.- Strong experience with Ubuntu Linux system administration and troubleshooting.- Experience with test automation and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.- Willingness to work at least four hours of overlap with US Central time. (ref:hirist.tech)