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AI DevOps Tech Lead

IBM

5 - 10 years

Mangalore

Posted: 11/06/2026

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Job Description

Introduction

At IBM Infrastructure & Technology, we design and operate the systems that keep the world running. From high-resiliency mainframes and hybrid cloud platforms to networking, automation, and site reliability. Our teams ensure the performance, security, and scalability that clients and industries depend on every day. Working in Infrastructure & Technology means tackling complex challenges with curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies and colleagues worldwide to deliver resilient, future-ready solutions that power innovation. With continuous learning, career growth, and a supportive culture, IBM provides the opportunities to build expertise and shape the infrastructure that drives progress.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a standardized, reusable Devops platform that enables consistent, secure, and efficient delivery of multiple components and teams within a cornerstone initiative of IBM’s AI infrastructure portfolio.

This role focuses on enterprise-scale DevOps platform engineering, providing secure, reliable, and highly automated delivery pipelines. You will act as a technical leader, driving DevOps strategy, defining standards, modernizing delivery pipelines using the latest tools and practices, and mentoring engineers to improve overall DevOps maturity.

The CI/CD platform you build will enable the faster and secure development and delivery of multiple components by providing a standardized, scalable, and reusable CI/CD framework shared across teams as well as different architectures.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Design, build, and own a shared architecture-agnostic CI/CD platform across teams.
  • Implement and enhance end-to-end robust delivery pipelines from development and test through staging and production.
  • Design and implement automated testing frameworks for across various test buckets including Component level tests, unit tests, Operation and model-level tests. 
  • Collaborate with different component owners and identify the needs in the respective build & test phases and implement it in this common DevOps pipeline.
  • Establish and maintain standardized pipeline templates for build, test, security scanning, packaging, and deployment to align with IBM standards and enforce quality gates, compliance checks, and security controls across all pipelines.
  • Implement controlled deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary, and A/B deployments where applicable.
  • Continuously optimize pipeline performance, reliability, and execution time by adopting latest DevOps tools, technologies, and best practices.
  • Collaborate with senior technical leadership and establish Roadmap for the project.
  • Proactively identify bottlenecks and lead continuous improvement initiatives
  • Act as technical lead for the CI/CD platform initiative by leading architecture and design discussions with senior stakeholders.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, guiding engineers on DevOps, CI/CD, and testing best practices.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • 12+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
  • Strong expertise in designing and operating shared, reusable CI/CD platforms supporting multiple teams and components.
  • Strong background in automated testing frameworks and quality engineering
  • Hands-on experience with Docker and modern deployment strategies.
  • Experience leading teams or acting as a technical lead in complex environments.
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
  • Jenkins Mastery with Deep experience in Declarative and Scripted Pipelines, shared libraries, and Jenkins API.
  • Proficient in configuring Jenkins with Git (GitHub) and artifact management tools (Artifactory)
  • Integrate Jenkins with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized application builds and deployments.
  • Strong skills in Python, Bash, and Groovy scripting for pipeline customizations

Nice-to-Have

 

  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native AI platforms.
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML frameworks, including: PyTorch
  • Building scalable components for monitoring and benchmarking  of LLM-powered features; experience working with LLMs will be advantageous.
  • Working knowledge of LLMs and their performance metrics is desirable, particularly in the context of monitoring within DevOps pipelines.
  • Experience with managing both dev, test, and production level containers with proper meta-data such as Manifests, tagging, and export control.
Years of Experience:
10 - 15

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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About Company

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a leading global technology and consulting company, headquartered in Armonk, New York. With over a century of innovation, IBM provides a wide range of technology solutions and professional services. The company specializes in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, helping organizations digitally transform their operations. IBM’s flagship AI platform, Watson, and its hybrid cloud capabilities are widely used across industries such as healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing. IBM is known for its strong commitment to research and development, and it consistently ranks among the top organizations for U.S. patents.

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