Experience: 5 - 12 Years

Location: PAN India

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days

Shift: 2nd Shift

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Chef Specialist / Chef Engineer to join our Cloud Architecture team. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Chef and infrastructure automation, along with expertise in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, configuration management, monitoring, and security.

The candidate should be a self-starter capable of designing, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting automated infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Automation

- Develop and maintain Chef Cookbooks and Recipes.
- Automate infrastructure configuration and application deployments using Chef.
- Maintain and troubleshoot existing Chef recipes and cookbooks.
- Manage and maintain Chef Automate running on customer cloud infrastructure.
- Implement infrastructure automation and configuration management best practices.

CI/CD
- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated and reliable deployments.
- Integrate Chef with CI/CD tools and development workflows.
- Improve deployment efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

System Monitoring & Maintenance
- Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, and reliability.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and automation-related issues.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.




- Ensure high availability and stability of customer environments.

Collaboration
- Work closely with Development, Operations, Cloud, and Security teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline infrastructure and deployment processes.
- Support automation initiatives and continuous improvement.

Security & Compliance
- Ensure infrastructure configurations comply with organizational security standards.
- Follow infrastructure security and configuration management best practices.
- Support security, audit, and compliance requirements.

Required Skills

- Minimum 3 years of recent hands-on experience with Chef
- 6+ years of experience in Infrastructure Automation
- Robust experience in Chef Infra / Chef Automate
- Hands-on experience in Chef Cookbook and Recipe development
- Experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
- Good understanding of Linux/Unix environments
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring and high-availability concepts
- Understanding of security and compliance practices
- Good communication and collaboration skills

Good to Have
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Jenkins / GitLab CI / Azure DevOps
- Git / GitHub / GitLab
- Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
- Shell scripting / Python
- Docker / Kubernetes
- DevSecOps practices

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