Senior Associate DevOps Engineer

Profile: Devops Engineer

Place of posting: Hyderabad
Experience: 3+ years

About the Role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who can help automate, deploy, monitor, and maintain critical applications and infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, cloud/on-prem infrastructure, automation, observability, and production support.
The engineer will work closely with developers, QA teams, security teams, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure application delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Application Deployment & Automation
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployment.
Automate build, testing, release, and deployment processes.
Support blue-green, rolling, and canary deployments.
Improve deployment speed and reliability through automation.

Kubernetes & Container Platform
Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
Troubleshoot application issues running on Kubernetes clusters.
Manage Kubernetes resources such as Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingresses, ConfigMaps, and Secrets.
Implement Helm charts for application packaging and deployment.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Provision and manage infrastructure through code.
Maintain reusable and version-controlled infrastructure templates.
Automate environment creation and configuration.

Monitoring, Alerting & Logging
Build dashboards and alerts to monitor applications and infrastructure.
Analyze logs and system metrics to identify issues proactively.
Support incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
Improve platform observability and reliability.

Platform Operations & Reliability
Ensure high availability and performance of production systems.
Participate in on-call support and incident management activities.
Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and operational improvements.
Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.

Security & Compliance
Implement DevSecOps best practices.
Manage secrets, certificates, access controls, and security policies.
Support vulnerability remediation and patch management.
Ensure adherence to enterprise security standards.

Collaboration
Work closely with development teams to improve application reliability.
Participate in architecture discussions and solution design.
Document processes, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Required Technical Skills

CI/CD & Source Control
Git, GitLab CI/CD / Jenkins / GitHub Actions
Pipeline automation
Release management

Containers & Orchestration
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm

Infrastructure Automation

Terraform
Ansible
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Monitoring & Logging
Prometheus
Grafana
OpenSearch / ELK Stack
VictoriaMetrics
Splunk (optional)

Operating Systems

Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu)
Shell/Bash scripting

Cloud & Platform Technologies
AWS / Azure / GCP (any one preferred)
Networking fundamentals

Load Balancers

DNS

SSL/TLS Certificates

Scripting & Automation
Python
Bash

API Automation

Preferred Skills (Good to Have)
Kafka
OpenSearch

Apache Superset

Apache Flink

Rook-Ceph / Storage Platforms
ArgoCD / GitOps
Service Mesh (Istio)
OpenTelemetry

SRE Practices

DevSecOps Tools

Container Security

Chaos Engineering

Performance Testing

Soft Skills (Layman-Friendly)

We are looking for someone who

Can solve production issues calmly and logically.
Likes automating repetitive work instead of doing it manually.
Can work with developers and explain technical problems clearly.
Takes ownership of issues and follows them through to resolution.
Understands how applications behave in production environments.
Is eager to learn new tools and technologies.
Has a proactive mindset and identifies problems before they impact users.
Can create simple documentation and knowledge-sharing material.

Experience
3–8 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or SRE roles.
Experience supporting business-critical or high-availability applications.
Experience managing Kubernetes-based workloads in production environments.

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