Devops Engineer

Location: Chennai

Experience: 4 - 8 years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Mode: Work from office.15 days to immediate joiner

Key Responsibilities:

• Kubernetes (K8s) On-Premise Setup and Management:
• Design, deploy, and manage highly available Kubernetes clusters in an on-premise environment.
• Handle day-to-day operations of Kubernetes including upgrades, patches, node scaling, storage provisioning, and networking.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and K8s manifests for deployments.
• DevOps Tools & CI/CD:
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity and GitLab CI/CD for seamless application delivery.
• Integrate automated build, test, and deployment stages with artifact management tools like Nexus.
• Ensure robust rollback strategies and canary/blue-green deployments.
• Configuration Management & Automation:
• Use Ansible for server provisioning, configuration automation, and environment orchestration.
• Write and maintain reusable Ansible playbooks and roles for application and infrastructure deployment.
• Monitoring & Alerting:
• Set up and manage monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure and application health using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or similar.
• Perform proactive issue identification, root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Scripting & Tooling:
• Develop internal tools, automation scripts, and monitoring utilities using Python and Bash.
• Manage cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and health-check tools to improve platform reliability.
• Source Code & Artifact Management:
• Manage and secure repositories in GitLab, enforce branching strategies and code review policies.
• Store and manage artifacts, Docker images, and packages in Nexus Repository Manager.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience managing on-prem Kubernetes clusters.
• Deep understanding of DevOps principles, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automation.
• Experience with TeamCity/Jenkins, Ansible, GitLab, Nexus, and monitoring tools.
• Proficient in Python and Bash scripting for automation and tooling.
• Solid understanding of Linux system administration including networking, file systems, services, and security.
• Familiarity with containerization using Docker, and container orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of networking, load balancing, security policies, and Linux system administration.
• Good understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and agile delivery processes.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Ingress Controllers, and K8s Operators.
• Experience with secret management tools (e.g., Vault, Sealed Secrets).
• Understanding of RBAC, IAM, and audit logging in on-prem Kubernetes environments.
• Knowledge of observability stack: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana (EFK stack).