Job Title: Manager – DevOps Engineering

Location: Chennai, India

Position Summary:

The Manager – DevOps Engineering will lead a team of skilled engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure and software delivery pipelines. This role involves driving DevOps best practices, promoting automation, and ensuring high availability and performance across environments. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and a passion for continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead, mentor, and manage the DevOps Engineering team while fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Define and champion the strategic direction for infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing.
- Collaborate with development teams to streamline the software delivery process and support fast, high-quality releases.
- Manage and monitor cloud infrastructure (AWS), ensuring optimal performance, cost, and security.
- Implement and maintain containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
- Automate configuration management (Ansible) and implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Troubleshoot complex production and staging issues; lead incident response and root cause analysis.
- Monitor system performance and implement reliability, scalability, and efficiency enhancements.
- Establish and enforce infrastructure security best practices and compliance standards.
- Create documentation on processes, procedures,



and configurations.
- Own system reliability by implementing incident response processes and automated recovery mechanisms.
- Manage budgeting and capacity planning for cloud resources.

Qualifications :

- B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech in CSE/IT/ECE or equivalent.
- 10+ years of experience in software development or infrastructure engineering.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a technical leadership or DevOps/SRE management role.
- Robust analytical, problem-solving, communication, and team leadership skills.
- Ability to work independently, be proactive, and drive initiatives to completion.

Technical Experience Required :

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (architecture, advanced services).
- Proficiency in Python / Shell scripting.
- Deep experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
- Expertise in Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code concepts.
- CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, or equivalent.
- Experience with reverse proxies such as Nginx, Traefik, APISIX, etc.
- Knowledge of networking: TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls, Ingress, HTTPS/HTTP.
- Hands-on experience with databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis.
- Monitoring & logging platforms: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Loki/Promtail/Tempo.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distribute systems, and debugging.
- Linux internals and performance tuning.
- Experience with SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotation).
- Experience implementing DevSecOps including SAST/DAST integration in CI/CD.
- Familiarity with security monitoring and vulnerability management.

📌 Manager, DevOps Engineering (Chennai)
🏢 Neeve
📍 Chennai