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The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, GitOps, observability, and platform automation.\nThis role requires strong ownership of developer experience, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, security-by-design, and platform reliability. The candidate will collaborate with architects, developers, DevOps engineers, cybersecurity teams, product teams, and business stakeholders to establish reusable platform capabilities, standards, and self-service solutions across the software delivery lifecycle.\nHow you'll make an impact:\nDesign, build, and maintain internal developer platforms that provide reusable services, templates, pipelines, and automation for application teams.\nCreate and manage cloud-native platform components on Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and container registries.\nStandardize CI/CD pipeline templates using Azure DevOps for build, test, security scanning, deployment, and release automation.\nImplement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or similar tools to provision and manage consistent environments.\nEnable GitOps and configuration-driven deployment practices for repeatable, auditable, and scalable platform operations.\nBuild self-service capabilities for developers, including environment provisioning, deployment templates, monitoring dashboards, and operational runbooks.\nImprove platform reliability through observability, logging, metrics, alerting, SLOs, incident analysis, and continuous operational improvements.\nIntegrate platform security controls including secrets management, container security, dependency scanning, image scanning, and policy enforcement.\nSupport DevSecOps practices by integrating tools such as SonarCloud, Black Duck, MetaDefender, or equivalent security and quality gates into delivery pipelines.\nImplement authentication, authorization, API gateway, ingress, service mesh, and secure connectivity patterns for platform services.\nPartner with application teams to troubleshoot deployment, performance, networking, availability, and operational issues.\nDefine platform standards, reusable architecture patterns, documentation, and best practices to improve developer productivity and governance.\nEvaluate and introduce automation, AI-assisted development, and platform engineering improvements that reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery.\nYour background\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.\nMinimum 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or cloud-native application delivery.\nStrong hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container registries, and cloud-native deployment patterns.\nStrong experience in Azure DevOps pipeline design, YAML pipelines, release automation, branching strategies, and reusable pipeline templates.\nHands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ARM/Bicep, or equivalent tools.\nGood understanding of platform engineering concepts such as developer portals, golden paths, self-service automation, reusable templates, and paved-road standards.\nExperience with GitOps tools and practices such as Argo CD, Flux, or equivalent configuration-driven deployment approaches.\nExperience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or similar platforms.\nGood understanding of networking, ingress controllers, DNS, certificates, load balancing, API gateways, and secure service-to-service communication.\nExperience with secrets management, identity, access control, OAuth, JWT, OpenID Connect, Keycloak, Azure Key Vault, or equivalent solutions.\nKnowledge of DevSecOps, secure SDLC, threat modeling, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, image scanning, and compliance readiness.\nExperience supporting event-driven or distributed systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, background jobs, or similar integration patterns is an advantage.\nGood understanding of application architecture, microservices, REST APIs, .NET Core, Angular, or full stack development concepts is an advantage.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, automation, and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex platform and production issues.\nStrong communication, collaboration, ownership, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.\nAbility to work independently, guide engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform standards and best practices.\nProficiency in English, both speaking and writing.\nExperience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot is an advantage.\nAccessibility and reasonable accommodation\nQualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing ageneral inquiry formon our website. Please include your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.\n\nThis is solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Messages left for other purposes will not receive a response.\n\nUse of Al and automated tools in recruitment\nAs part of our recruitment process, Hitachi Energy uses digital and automated tools, including Al-supported solutions, to assist with activities such as application screening, job matching, and interview scheduling. These tools are designed to support our recruiters and do not replace human decision-making. Candidate data is processed in accordance with applicable data protection and employment laws as well asHitachi's Global Data Privacy Notice.\nBackground Screening and Security Checks\nAs part of the hiring process, Hitachi Energy conducts pre-employment background checks that may include verification of employment history, education, criminal records, and other relevant information, in accordance with applicable laws.\nFor certain roles-particularly those involving access to sensitive information, financial responsibilities, client data, regulated environments, or security-sensitive functions-additional or more comprehensive background or security screenings may be required. 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