Role Summary

A DevOps Engineer with 6 years of experience specializing in GitHub Actions is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable and efficient software delivery. This role collaborates closely with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to automate processes, enhance system reliability, and improve deployment speed and quality.

Key Responsibilities

- CI/CD Pipeline Design & Implementation
- Architect, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

- Configure workflows for build, test, security scanning, and deployment across multiple environments.

- Optimize pipeline performance, reliability, and cost.

- Automation & Infrastructure as Code

- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.

- Automate environment provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments.

- Develop reusable automation scripts (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell) for operational tasks.

- Cloud & Container Platforms

- Manage and support workloads on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Work with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or EKS/AKS.

- Implement scalable and highly available infrastructure solutions.

- Monitoring, Logging & Reliability

- Configure monitoring and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent.

- Implement centralized logging using ELK/EFK, Splunk, or cloud-native solutions.

- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.

- Security & Compliance in CI/CD

- Integrate security tools (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning) into GitHub Actions workflows.

- Manage secrets and credentials securely using GitHub Secrets, Vault,



or cloud key management services.

- Ensure CI/CD processes comply with organizational security and governance standards.

- Collaboration & DevOps Culture

- Work closely with development teams to enable continuous integration and delivery best practices.

- Drive adoption of DevOps methodologies, automation, and standardization across projects.

- Document processes, pipelines, and infrastructure for maintainability and knowledge sharing.

Required Skills & Experience

- 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / Build & Release Engineering.

- Strong expertise in GitHub Actions:
- Creating and managing workflows, reusable workflows, and actions.

- Experience with matrix builds, environment-specific pipelines, and multi-stage deployments.

- Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts, branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based), and release management.

- Practical experience with:

- Cloud platforms: AWS/Azure/GCP (any one or more).

- Containers & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.

- IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.

- Robust scripting skills in Bash, Python, or equivalent.

- Knowledge of Linux-based systems administration and networking basics.

- Experience integrating testing frameworks, code quality tools, and security scanners into pipelines.

- Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools and practices.

Preferred/Good-to-Have

- Experience with other CI tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps) for migration to GitHub Actions.

- Exposure to microservices architectures and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling).

- Knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).

- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

📌 DevOps Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Kumaran Systems
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