In this role, you would own the deployment and operation of that platform end to end, from the Linux VMs and databases through to Kubernetes and thAbout the role: DevOps Engineer (On-Prem Platform Deployments)e Java/Spring Boot services running on it.
Deploy and upgrade services on Kubernetes using Helm, and manage the clusters themselves (upgrades, etcd, certificates, ingress, storage)
Operate self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, along with Redis, Kafka and RabbitMQ
Build reusable Ansible automation that installs the full stack at every customer site
Troubleshoot production issues across the VM, network, Kubernetes and JVM layers
Work directly with customer infrastructure, network and security teams, including occasional on-site visits and out-of-hours upgrade windows

3-4 years of hands-on experience in on-prem or VM-based environments
Practical experience with Kubernetes operations, Helm and Ansible
Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
Experience running databases and messaging systems yourself, rather than through managed cloud services

Full-stack ownership, rather than a single slice of the infrastructure
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As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for deploying, managing, and troubleshooting our on-prem platform across customer datacentres. We're looking for someone with 3-4 years of hands-on experience across self-managed databases, Linux and networking, Kubernetes operations, and Ansible automation. You'll also own production issues and work closely with customer infrastructure, network, and security teams.

Deploy and upgrade Java/Spring Boot services on Kubernetes clusters inside customer datacentres, using Helm with per-customer value sets.

Manage the Kubernetes clusters themselves — installation and version upgrades, node lifecycle and capacity,



control-plane and etcd health, certificate rotation, CNI, ingress and storage classes — both on clusters we build and on enterprise distributions the customer provides.

Provision, tune and operate self-managed databases on Linux VMs — MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB — including replication, backup, verified point-in-time restore, and version upgrades.
Provision and operate the middleware layer on VMs — Redis (Sentinel), Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ — including clustering, authentication and capacity planning.

Run OpenSearch as the centralised application log store: shard and heap sizing, index lifecycle and retention policies, cluster health.
Automate the full infrastructure build with Ansible — reusable roles plus per-customer inventories, so the same automation installs the stack at every customer without being forked.

Own day-2 Kubernetes operations: rollouts, probe and resource tuning, persistent storage, ingress and TLS, and diagnosis of pod, scheduling and networking failures.
Troubleshoot production issues across the VM, network, Kubernetes and JVM boundaries — determine whether a fault is infrastructure or application, and drive root-cause analysis.
Manage certificates, truststores and private container registry (Harbor) content for restricted and air-gapped environments.
Write Python and Shell automation for provisioning, health checks and routine operational tasks.
Apply security and access hygiene appropriate to regulated customer environments — least privilege access, secret handling, network segmentation, audit readiness.
Produce and maintain runbooks and handover documentation so a customer's own operations team can run what we install.
Work directly with customer infrastructure, network and security teams during deployment and issue resolution, on-site where required.
Support periodic out-of-hours deployment and upgrade windows at customer sites

📌 Platform Engineer / Devops Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Xebia
📍 Chennai