GitHub Automation Engineer

5 - 7 Years
1 Opening
Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Noida, Pune, Trivandrum

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled GitHub Automation Engineer to design, build, and optimize enterprise-grade automation frameworks across GitHub platforms. This role focuses on automating repository and pipeline migrations, ensuring CI/CD continuity, and building scalable integration workflows. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on expertise in GitHub Actions, strong scripting and programming background, and a solid foundation in DevOps and platform automation.

Key Responsibilities

Migration & Automation Engineering

• Design and build end-to-end automation frameworks for GitHub repository, workflow, and organization migrations.
• Develop pre-migration assessment and post-migration validation automation to ensure compliance, governance, and operational readiness.

CI/CD & Pipeline Continuity

• Architect and implement pipeline continuity mechanisms to avoid downtime during migrations and break/fix scenarios.
• Create reusable workflow templates and composite actions to standardize automation patterns across teams.

Integrations & Platform Operations

• Build automation to re-register and reconfigure integrations (security tools, artifact repositories, cloud platforms) post-migration.
• Develop self-service automation tools for teams onboarding to GitHub.

Reporting & Observability

• Build automated reporting dashboards and utilities to track migration status, validation outcomes, and performance metrics.
• Implement automated ing and logging mechanisms for workflow failures and performance bottlenecks.

Collaboration & Governance

• Partner with platform, security, and DevOps teams to ensure automation aligns with enterprise security and governance standards.
• Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, and automation standards.

Troubleshooting & Optimization

• Debug and optimize GitHub Actions workflows and self-hosted runner performance.
• Continuously improve automation reliability, performance, and scalability.

Required Technical Skills

Programming & Scripting

• Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Node.js for enterprise automation.
• Advanced Shell scripting (Bash/PowerShell).

GitHub & CI/CD

• Expert-level experience with GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, composite actions, self-hosted runners).
• Strong hands-on experience using gh CLI for GitHub automation and scripting.

APIs & Integration

• Experience working with REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Strong understanding of webhooks, event-driven automation, and service integrations.

Infrastructure & Environment

• Experience with Docker and Linux-based environments.
• Working knowledge of Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools (nice to have).

Configuration & Data

• Strong experience with YAML and JSON configuration standards.

Github, Python