Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience: 5+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Department: Engineering / DevOps / Platform

Work Location: Chennai

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in building, automating, deploying, monitoring, and supporting production systems.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience across Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Networking, Security, Monitoring, and Production Troubleshooting.

This role requires someone who can take ownership of production infrastructure, design reliable deployment pipelines, troubleshoot incidents, automate repetitive operational activities, and work closely with development, QA, security, and infrastructure teams.

We are looking for a hands-on engineer who has personally implemented and operated production systems, rather than someone whose experience is primarily theoretical or limited to tool administration.

Required Technical SkillsMandatory

- 5+ years of professional DevOps / SRE / Cloud / Platform Engineering experience.
- Strong Linux administration.
- Strong networking fundamentals.
- Strong Git knowledge.
- Strong CI/CD experience.
- Hands-on Docker experience.
- Production Kubernetes experience.
- Hands-on Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience.
- Strong AWS or equivalent cloud experience.
- Production troubleshooting experience.
- Monitoring and observability experience.
- Bash or Python scripting.
- Strong understanding of cloud security and IAM.

Preferred
- Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI/CD.
- AWS EKS / ECS.
- Prometheus and Grafana.
- ELK / Elastic Stack / Loki.




- Ansible.
- Helm.
- Argo CD or another GitOps platform.
- OpenTelemetry.
- SonarQube or equivalent SAST tooling.
- Trivy or equivalent container scanning.
- Vault / AWS Secrets Manager.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar infrastructure components.

Required Production Experience The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate practical experience with several of the following:
- Designing production infrastructure.
- Building CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
- Deploying applications to Kubernetes or equivalent platforms.
- Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
- Managing production cloud infrastructure.
- Troubleshooting Linux systems.
- Troubleshooting networking issues.
- Performing production deployments and rollbacks.
- Handling production incidents.
- Implementing monitoring and alerting.
- Improving system reliability.
- Implementing security controls.
- Automating operational processes.
- Designing backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Optimizing cloud infrastructure costs.

Soft Skills
- Strong ownership and accountability.
- Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work under production pressure.
- Solid communication skills.
- Ability to explain technical problems clearly.
- Ability to work with developers, QA, security, database, and infrastructure teams.
- Willingness to participate in on-call / production support when required.
- Strong documentation habits.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers.
- Ability to make technical decisions and explain trade-offs.

Benefits:
- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

📌 DevOps Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 SVNXT
📍 Chennai