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alor Paytech is seeking a highly experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the architecture, strategy, and execution of cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices across our AWS-based platforms. This role will drive automation, scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence while providing technical leadership and mentoring engineering teams.

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loud Architecture & DevOps Leadership

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- sign and manage secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure. D
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- fine cloud architecture standards, governance, cost optimization, and reliability best practices. L
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- ad cloud modernization and infrastructure transformation initiatives. E
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- tablish and enforce DevOps standards, processes, and operational excellence across environments. M
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- ntor and guide DevOps engineers and provide technical leadership across teams.

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- ad Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools. D
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- chitect, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent tools. I
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- plement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK. D
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- ive SRE practices including incident management, root cause analysis, SLIs, and SLOs. E
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- sure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity. I
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- plement security best practices including IAM, KMS, secrets management, and DevSecOps controls. P
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- rtner with security teams to ensure compliance and governance requirements are met.

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- anslate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable technical solutions. W
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- fluence technology and architecture decisions across the organization.

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- + years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering. 5
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- years of hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch. S
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- rong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred). P
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- nds-on experience with Docker and container orchestration — Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, or equivalent. S
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- vanced scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell. E
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- perience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet. S
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- rong understanding of networking, security, and distributed system architecture.

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- chelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. E
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- perience in FinTech, Payments, Banking, or other regulated environments. E
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- posure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures. E
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- perience with artifact repositories such as Nexus or Artifactory. K
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- owledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices. A
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- S Professional-level certifications are highly desirable.

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- chnical leadership and architecture ownership S
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- rong problem-solving and decision-making skills S
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- ntoring and team development A
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- tomation-first and continuous improvement mindset

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loud: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch)

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I/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD

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aC: Terraform, CloudFormation

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ontainers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS

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📌 Principal DevOps Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Valor PayTech
📍 Chennai