Lead Software Application DevOps Engineer

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing’s team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company’s core values of safety, quality and integrity.

The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) is a 5500+ engineering workforce that contributes to global aerospace growth. Our engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D, innovation, and high-quality engineering work in global markets, and leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML, IIoT, Cloud, Model-Based Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing, shaping the future of aerospace.

At Boeing, we believe creativity and innovation thrives when every employee is trusted, empowered, and has the flexibility to choose, grow, learn, and explore. We offer variable arrangements depending upon business and customer needs, and professional pursuits that offer greater flexibility in the way our people work. We also believe that collaboration, frequent team engagements, and face-to-face meetings bring together different perspectives and thoughts – enabling every voice to be heard and every perspective to be respected. No matter where or how our teammates work, we are committed to positively shaping people’s careers and being thoughtful about employee wellbeing.

With us, you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career, community, country, and world. Join us in powering the progress of global aerospace.

• →Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and automated CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying applications across environments. 

• →Provision and manage cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure using Infrastructure-as-Code, ensuring repeatable, version-controlled, and auditable environments. 

• →Build, operate, and optimize containerized workloads on Kubernetes (AKS), including deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary releases. 

• →Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability to ensure system health, reliability, and rapid incident detection. 

• →Drive automation across the software delivery lifecycle to reduce manual effort, shorten lead time, and improve deployment frequency and reliability. 

• →Embed security into the pipeline (DevSecOps) - automated scanning, secrets management, and compliance with enterprise security standards. 

• →Define and improve branching, release, and environment-promotion strategies in collaboration with development teams. 

• →Partner with developers, architects, and QA to improve build/deploy practices, testability, and the overall developer experience. 

• →Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews; drive reliability improvements and reduce recurrence. 

• →Manage capacity, cost, and performance optimization of cloud resources, promoting FinOps and efficient resource utilization. 

• →Maintain clear documentation of infrastructure, pipelines, runbooks, and operational procedures. 

• →Contribute to Team PI Objectives and iteration plans, estimate and commit work as part of Sprint Planning, and raise impediments and risks promptly. 

• →Mentor team members on DevOps best practices, automation, and cloud-native ways of working. 

• Bachelor’s degree is required as basic qualification.
• 11+  years relevant experience, with a strong focus on DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform/Cloud Engineering. 

• Hands-on expertise building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts), GitHub Actions, or Jenkins for automated build, test, and deployment. 

• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services (AKS, App Services, Functions, Networking, Key Vault, Monitor) - Azure certification (e.g. AZ-400 / AZ-104) is highly preferable. 

• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes, including Helm charts and managing production-grade clusters. 

• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep, and configuration management tools such as Ansible. 

• Strong scripting and automation skills with PowerShell, Bash, and Python. 

• Experience implementing observability and monitoring using tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK/EFK stack. 

• Solid understanding of source control with Git and branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development). 

• Working knowledge of building and deploying Java 8+ / Spring Boot applications, including Maven and Gradle build tooling and artifact management. 

• Understanding of DevSecOps practices - vulnerability scanning, secrets management, image scanning, and integrating security controls into pipelines. 

• Experience with networking, load balancing, DNS, TLS/certificates, and API gateways in cloud environments. 

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex build, deployment, and production issues across distributed systems. 

• Experience with DevOps Practices such as Continuous integration and continuous deployment (using Microsoft DevOps), configuration management, metrics and monitoring schemes, virtualization and cloud computing using Microsoft Azure  

• Proficiency in Angular or React Native for cross-platform mobile development 

• Solid understanding of mobile UI/UX best practices and platform-specific design guidelines 

• Knowledge and/or experience of the Aviation Industry desirable 

• Familiarity with Java software development in order to effectively perform analysis of issues and identify potential code defects  

• Scripting experience with JavaScript, Python.  

• This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.