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. You’ll 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 You’ll 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.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• Bachelor’s 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).