DevOps Consultant | Harness London
Summary
A hands-on DevOps consultant role leading enterprise CI/CD transformations on the Harness platform at Infosys in London — designing pipelines, managing Harness Delegates, embedding security/OPA governance, and supporting pre-sales. Core stack: Harness (CI/CD/STO/CCM/Chaos), Kubernetes, Git workflows, YAML/Python, AWS/Azure/GCP, and Terraform/Helm.
In this role you will lead the Harness platform transformation to enable modern software delivery at scale. You will design and optimize enterprise CI/CD architectures, migrating legacy toolchains and embedding security governance. You’ll work with cross‑functional teams to implement AI‑driven automation and governance across Cyn Harness modules. This is a hands‑on leadership role that blends architecture, delivery excellence, and strategic pre‑sales support to accelerate digital transformation.
Responsibilities- Lead design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines using the Harness platform for enterprise delivery, security, and compliance.
- Architect end‑to‑end delivery workflows across Harness modules (CI, CD, STO, Chaos Engineering, CCM, AI‑driven capabilities).
- Manage Harness Delegate installations, upgrades, and integrations across cloud and on‑prem environments.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Platform, Security, and AppDev teams to define scalable CI/CD patterns and reusable templates.
- Onboard applications to Harness, including assessments, pipeline configuration, troubleshooting, and modernization (containerization, IaC).
- Integrate security scanners via STO and enforce governance with OPA policies.
- Leverage Harness AI Agents to automate triaging, self‑healing, remediation, and policy‑driven decisions.
- Develop AI‑powered automation patterns and automation assets for consistent delivery across teams.
- Drive adoption of additional Harness modules (IDP, Feature Management, Chaos Engineering, Engineering Insights).
- Conduct capability assessments, architecture enhancements, and contribute to CI/CD transformation roadmaps.
- Establish progressive delivery standards (blue‑green, canary, rolling deployments, automated rollback).
- Support pre‑sales activities including PoCs, demos, estimations, and proposals.
- Develop reusable automation assets, templates, and documentation for consistent execution.
- Configure and manage infrastructure for pipelines (Kubernetes, VMs, artifact repos, Git platforms, cloud services).
- Ensure security, performance, scalability, and quality best practices across CI/CD and DevSecOps.
- Mentor teams, deliver enablement sessions, and promote continuous learning on Harness capabilities.
- Stay current with Harness features to improve delivery blueprints and standards.
- Over 12 years in DevOps, CI/CD engineering, or platform engineering.
- 3+ years hands‑on with Harness (CI, CD, STO, Chaos, CCM).
- Designing enterprise CI/CD pipelines; Kubernetes container orchestration.
- Git workflows (GitHub, GitLab, ADO); YAML, shell scripting, Python.
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP); Terraform, Helm, or similar IaC tools.
- Solid DevSecOps understanding, OPA policy creation, and compliance frameworks.
- Hands on with Harness AI Agents (policy enforcement, insights, automated decisions).
- Preferred: experience with large‑scale modernization/migration (e.g., Jenkins to Harness).
- Exposure to enterprise AppSec workflows and STO integration; Chaos Engineering with Harness.
- High analytical skills
- Initiative and flexibility
- Customer orientation
- Harness Software Delivery Platform (CI, CD, STO, Chaos, CCM)
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Git workflows (GitHub, GitLab, ADO)