About Us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About Energy Systems

We help customers navigate the complex transition to a decarbonized and more sustainable energy future. We do this by assuring that energy systems work safely and effectively, using solutions that are increasingly digital. We also help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry.

About The Role

The Senior DevOps Engineer, Team Lead is responsible for leading DevOps practices, deployment automation, cloud operations, reliability, release support, and operational readiness across Digital & Transformation. This role provides hands-on technical leadership for DevOps responsibilities that support the broader platform across Solution Engineering, Application Engineering, and Data & AI Engineering.

This role sits within Digital & Transformation, helping to advance how DNV performs Due Diligence, Verification & Assurance, and Renewables Certification work across Energy Systems.

Working in close partnership with Product leadership, Solution Engineering, Application Engineering, Data & AI Engineering, Platform Security & Compliance, Solution Architecture, and globally distributed engineering teams, this role ensures platform delivery is automated, reliable, secure, observable, and ready for production use.

The Senior DevOps Engineer, Team Lead supports a DevOps team across traditional application delivery, data and AI services, APIs, and low-code or hybrid platform deployment scenarios. The role has a particular focus on supporting the low-code hybrid platform environment used by Solution Engineering while also enabling reliable delivery for web applications, data services, AI-enabled capabilities, and shared platform components.

This role requires strong DevOps fundamentals, practical cloud operations experience, and the ability to lead organized delivery across multiple platform teams. The ideal candidate is comfortable with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment management, monitoring, release governance, security controls, and structured DevOps or agile delivery practices in Azure, AWS, and hybrid platform environments.

This role is based at our DNV office in Chennai, India. Further details regarding role-specific requirements will be shared during the interview process.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Leadership & Delivery

Lead day-to-day DevOps delivery across low-code and hybrid platform environments, web applications, APIs, data services, AI-enabled capabilities, and shared platform components.
Provide hands-on technical leadership while contributing directly to pipeline development, deployment automation, environment support, monitoring, troubleshooting, and release readiness.
Establish clear ownership, accountability, delivery discipline, and operational standards across DevOps workstreams.
Guide release management, environment strategy, deployment automation, operational readiness, and production support practices.
Coach DevOps engineers on reliability practices, automation quality, secure delivery, stakeholder communication, and operational discipline.
Maintain clear visibility into DevOps priorities, dependencies, risks, blockers, release timelines, and operational readiness needs.

CI/CD, Automation & Cloud Operations

Build, maintain, and improve deployment pipelines for web applications, APIs, data services, AI services, platform configurations, and low-code or hybrid platform components.
Improve deployment speed, consistency, rollback readiness, release traceability, and operational confidence.
Create reusable pipeline patterns, deployment templates, infrastructure modules, automation scripts, and operational standards.
Support environment provisioning, access configuration, secrets management, configuration management, and controlled deployment practices.
Reduce manual deployment effort by improving automation, repeatability, and standardization across platform teams.

Low-Code, Hybrid Platform & Application Support

Support deployment and operational practices for low-code, no-code, and hybrid platform environments.
Partner with Solution Engineering on complex configuration deployments, data load scenarios, workflow releases, customer implementation environments, and environment readiness.
Standardize reusable deployment and operational patterns as platform capabilities mature.

Reliability, Monitoring & Incident Management

Ensure platform systems are observable, resilient, performant, secure, and supportable.
Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, health checks, and incident response practices that support production operations.
Support capacity planning, availability, backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and operational readiness activities.
Partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, scalability, error handling, and production diagnostics.
Ensure production issues are documented, tracked, resolved, and used to improve future delivery practices.
Support smoke testing, regression validation, post-deployment checks, rollback procedures, and release confidence.

Security, Compliance & Governance

Partner with Platform Security & Compliance to support internal security baselines, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and enterprise security expectations.
Embed secure practices into CI/CD, access controls, separation of duties, change management, deployment approvals, environment management, and audit evidence.
Support vulnerability management, dependency updates, secrets management, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and incident readiness.
Maintain documentation and evidence for deployment processes, change records, access controls, environment controls, operational procedures, and release readiness.
Promote secure and compliant operations across custom software, low-code and hybrid platform deployments, APIs, data services, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Define practical expectations for how the team uses AI-enabled DevOps workflows while maintaining strong review, security, reliability, and auditability standards.

Team Delivery, Agile Execution & Collaboration

Manage team delivery through structured backlogs, sprint planning, refinement, task tracking, review, retrospective practices, or equivalent delivery methods.
Break down complex DevOps work into actionable tasks, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
Coordinate across Product, Solution Engineering, Application Engineering, Data & AI Engineering, Platform Security & Compliance, Solution Architecture, and global teams to keep DevOps work aligned with broader platform priorities.
Communicate operational risks, release readiness, blockers, tradeoffs, and delivery status clearly.
Support knowledge transfer to engineering and implementation teams where DevOps patterns, deployment guidance, or operational practices become reusable standards.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, operational excellence, automation, continuous improvement, and delivery ownership.

What we offer

Flexible work arrangements for better work-life balance
Generous Paid Leaves (Annual, Sick, Compassionate, Local Public, Marriage, Maternity, Paternity, Medical leave)
Medical benefits ( Insurance and Annual Health Check-up)
Pension and Insurance Policies (Group Term Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance)
Training and Development Assistance (Training Sponsorship, On-The-Job Training, Training Programme)
Additional Benefits (Long Service Awards, Mobile Phone Reimbursement)
Company bonus/Profit share.

*Benefits may vary based on position, tenure/contract/grade level*

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

About You

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform operations, cloud engineering, release engineering, site reliability engineering, or related technical roles.
Experience leading technical delivery, mentoring engineers, coordinating DevOps workstreams, or guiding platform operations initiatives in a production environment.
Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure automation, environment management, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management.
Experience supporting production web applications, APIs, services, data services, AI-enabled capabilities, or cloud-based systems.
Experience supporting low-code, no-code, or hybrid platform deployments, or strong interest and ability to operate in a hybrid platform environment.
Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or comparable cloud environments, with preference for multi-cloud exposure.
Experience supporting secure development and deployment practices aligned with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, or comparable enterprise security expectations.
Strong organization, excellent English communication, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and delivery coordination skills.

What Is Preferred

Experience in product-led or platform-based organizations.
Familiarity with low-code or hybrid development environments.
Experience supporting interoperability across multiple systems or enterprise platforms.
Background in energy, infrastructure, renewables, assurance, certification, or other technically complex industries.

Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country-specific laws and practices.

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