DevOps Engineer

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. Youll 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 YOULL 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

• Bachelors 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).

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the positions scope and function in the company.

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