DevOps Engineer

Role : Devops Engineer

Location : Chennai

Experience : 8-10 yrs

Job Summary :

This role requires a highly motivated individual to lead a team of DevOps Engineers, drive automation initiatives, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps Engineers, providing technical direction and career guidance.

- Collaborate with development and QA teams to design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.

- Architect and manage end-to-end DevOps infrastructure ensuring high availability, performance, and security.

- Drive automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and deployment.

- Maintain and enhance system security, performance tuning, and backup/recovery strategies.

- Continuously monitor, analyze, and improve DevOps processes for efficiency and reliability.

Required Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.

- 8+ years of experience in DevOps team.

- 2+ Years of experience as a DevOps lead.

- Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Skills :

- Expertise in Installation, Configuration and file system management of Linux.

- Must have done at least 6 months of hands on work in writing up Ansible playbooks or Kubernetes helm chart.

- Performance tuning, perform backup and restore.

- Experience on configuration management tool like git and SVN.

- Configuring and managing Apache webserver and MySQL server.

- Hands on experience on Amazon Web Services.

- Hands on different operating systems.

- Hands on experience on virtualization software such as Virtual Box, VMware, Vagrant and Docker

- Designing and deploying a multiple application using almost all of the AWS features (including EC2, Route53, VPN, IAM, S3, RDS) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling.

- Linux user and group Management.

- Centos and Ubuntu new installation, patching, trouble shooting.

- Installation and Configuration of Mail Servers like postfix, send-mail and Dovecot.

- Creating AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.

- Experience with monitoring tools such as New-Relic, Cloud Watch.

- Configuration & File sharing using NFS, FTP.

- RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.

- Firewall Security with iptables configuration.

- System monitoring CPU, Disk, Memory utilization etc.

- Monitoring & troubleshooting with performance related issues.

- Managing Disks and partitions (LVM) and Swap Space management.

- Installations of different operating systems on servers/desktops.

- Managed and troubleshoot issue related to OS. File permissions, Backup and restoring Files.