DevOps Engineer

Factspan Overview

Factspan is a pure play data and analytics services organization. We partner with fortune 500 enterprises to build an analytics center of excellence, generating insights and solutions from raw data to solve business challenges, make strategic recommendations and implement new processes that help them succeed. With offices in Seattle, Washington and Bengaluru, India; we use a global delivery model to service our customers. Our customers include industry leaders from Retail, Financial Services, Hospitality, and technology sectors.

Role Overview

Were looking for a Legacy Jenkins Engineer who will maintain, optimize, and eventually modernize legacy Jenkins-based CI pipelines for enterprise applications. The role includes managing freestyle and scripted Jenkins jobs, integrating with Git repositories, and contributing to the migration effort toward GitLab CI and YAML-based declarative pipelines. You will be a key contributor in ensuring stability while driving innovation as part of a cross-functional DevOps POD.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and enhance legacy Jenkins pipelines, including Freestyle, Pipeline (Groovy), and multi-branch jobs.
• Maintain scripted job logic and address performance/stability issues across multiple environments.
• Collaborate with SCM and application teams to manage job triggers, SCM polling, build chaining, and post-build actions.
• Support integration with Git, SonarQube, Artifactory, Maven, and uDeploy.
• Lead the migration of legacy Jenkins jobs to modern GitLab CI YAML templates and reusable pipeline modules.
• Create shared libraries for common CI workflows and enforce pipeline standardization.
• Write and maintain Groovy scripts for complex build automation and shared utilities.
• Implement logging, error tracking, and pipeline dashboards for visibility and troubleshooting.
• Ensure CI processes support code quality gates, secure scanning, and audit compliance.
• Work with the uDeploy team for downstream deployment orchestration and rollback strategies.
  
  

Key Skills

• CI Tools : Jenkins (Freestyle, Groovy pipelines), GitLab CI (basic knowledge or migration interest)
• Scripting : Groovy, Bash, Shell
• SCM & Build : Git, GitLab, Maven, Artifactory, SonarQube
• Pipeline Management : Shared libraries, folder structures, scripted condition handling
• Monitoring & Debugging : Jenkins logs, Job history analysis, failure pattern identification
• Soft Skills : Attention to legacy systems, documentation discipline, steady-state support experience.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience in CI pipeline rationalization/consolidation projects.
• Hands-on experience in GitLab CI migration and template design.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and basic Kubernetes CI practices.
• Understanding of Retail app release cycles, especially seasonal traffic prep.
• Cross-team collaboration mindset with NOC, DevOps, and SRE teams
  
  

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