DevOps Engineer

About the role:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, and Kubernetes to architect and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role emphasizes security-first DevOps practices, on-premises Kubernetes operations, and integration with data engineering workflows.

🛠 Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Jenkins (Expert): Advanced pipeline development, DSL scripting, security integration, troubleshooting
• Docker (Expert): Secure multi-stage builds, vulnerability management, optimisation for Java/Scala/Python
• Ansible (Expert): Complex playbook development, configuration management, automation at scale
• Kubernetes (Expert - Primary Focus): On-premises cluster operations, security hardening, networking, storage management
• SonarQube/Code Quality (Strong): Integration, quality gate enforcement, threshold management
• DevSecOps (Strong): Security scanning, compliance automation, vulnerability remediation, workload governance
• Spark ETL/ETA (Moderate): Understanding of distributed data processing, job configuration, runtime behavior

Core Competencies

• Deep understanding of DevSecOps principles and security-first automation
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities across complex distributed systems
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps methodologies
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and security standards
• Ability to mentor teams and drive best practice adoption

🎓Qualifications

• 6 - 10 Years years of hands-on DevOps
• Proven track record with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible in production environments
• Experience managing on-premises Kubernetes clusters (bare-metal preferred)
• Strong background in security hardening and compliance automation
• Familiarity with data engineering platforms and big data technologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

🚀 Key Responsibilities

1.CI/CD Pipeline Architecture & Security

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins with embedded security controls:
• Build greenfield pipelines and enhance/stabilize existing pipeline infrastructure
• Diagnose and resolve build, test, and deployment failures across multi-service environments
• Integrate security gates, compliance checks, and automated quality controls at every pipeline stage
• Manage and optimize SonarQube and static code analysis tooling:
• Enforce code quality and security scanning standards across all services
• Maintain organizational coding standards, vulnerability thresholds, and remediation workflows
• Automate quality gates as integral components of CI/CD processes
• Engineer optimized Docker images for Java, Scala, and Python applications:
• Implement multi-stage builds, layer optimization, and minimal base images
• Conduct image vulnerability scanning and enforce compliance policies
• Apply containerization best practices for security and performance
• Develop comprehensive Ansible automation:
• Create modular, reusable, and secure playbooks for configuration management
• Automate environment provisioning and application lifecycle operations
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code standards and version control

2.Kubernetes Platform Operations & Security

• Lead complete lifecycle management of on-premises/bare-metal Kubernetes clusters:
• Cluster provisioning, version upgrades, node maintenance, and capacity planning
• Configure and manage networking (CNI), persistent storage solutions, and ingress controllers
• Troubleshoot workload performance, resource constraints, and reliability issues
• Implement and enforce Kubernetes security best practices:
• Design and manage RBAC policies, service account isolation, and least-privilege access models
• Apply Pod Security Standards, network policies, secrets encryption, and certificate lifecycle management
• Conduct cluster hardening, security audits, monitoring, and policy governance
• Provide technical leadership to development teams:
• Guide secure deployment patterns and containerized application best practices
• Establish workload governance frameworks for distributed systems
• Drive adoption of security-first mindsets across engineering teams

3.Data Engineering Support

• Collaborate with data engineering teams on Spark-based workloads:
• Support deployment and operational tuning of Spark ETL/ETA jobs
• Understand cluster integration, job orchestration, and performance optimization
• Debug and troubleshoot Spark workflow issues in production environments

Objectives of this role

•Building and implementing new development tools and infrastructure

•Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying them to developers

•Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes

•Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results

•Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

•Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes

•Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

•Planning projects and being involved in project management decisions

Responsibilities:

• Set up CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and delivery

•Setup and management of new and Existing cloud-based Kubernetes cluster services

•Write Ad/Hoc Bash/Python scripts to automate certain operational tasks.

•Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.

•Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.

•System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms

•Support/maintain development, UAT and production infrastructure.

•Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.

•Respond to L2 calls and emails.

•Help administer monitoring systems, alerting, log management, and other IT infrastructure systems.

•Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues

•Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Technical Skill Requirements:

•Experience in a DevOps role in AWS/OCI cloud environment.

•Must have experience with CI/CD Pipelines and hands-on experience with DevOps tools such as, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, etc.

•Strong knowledge in Terraform for multi-stack cloud infrastructure provisioning.

•Strong knowledge in OCI/AWS-based Kubernetes service management.

•Must have experience with Python/Bash as a scripting language.

•Good knowledge in software debugging, web applications and services (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy)

•Must have knowledge in monitoring setup with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Fluentbit, etc.

Good To Have Skills

•PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Keycloak.

•Migrating application from one cloud to another; OCI certifications

•Test Driven Development

Soft Skill Requirements:

•Able to learn new skills and technology quickly.

•Energetic with amazing customer service skills and a team-oriented approach.

•Strong verbal and written communication skills

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to join our dynamic team. This role requires strong technical expertise across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code (IaC). The ideal candidate should also have direct client-facing experience and a proactive approach to managing both internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external clients to understand infrastructure requirements and implement DevOps best practices.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, etc.).
• Develop and manage infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Manage and orchestrate containers using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Write robust automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting.
• Monitor system performance and availability, and ensure high uptime and reliability.
• Execute and optimize SQLqueries for MSSQL and PostgresQL databases.
• Maintain clear documentation and provide technical support to stakeholders and clients.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in a DevOps or related role.
• Proven experience in client-facing engagements and communication.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services – EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, etc.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Strong experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitHub.
• Solid understanding of SQL and working experience with MSSQL and PostgreSQL.
• Proficient in Python and Shell scripting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) are a plus.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• 3 - 6 years of software development, and operations experience deploying and maintaining multi-tiered infrastructure and applications at scale.
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Experience managing any distributed NoSQL system (Kafka/Cassandra/etc.)
• Experience with Containers, Microservices, deployment and service orchestration using Kubernetes, EKS (preferred), AKS or GKE.
• Strong scripting language knowledge, such as Python, Shell
• Experience and a deep understanding of Kubernetes.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Work collaboratively with software engineers to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Job description

The role requires you to design development pipelines from the ground up, Creation of Docker Files,  design and operate highly available systems in AWS Cloud environments. Also involves Configuration Management, Web Services Architectures, DevOps Implementation, Database management, Backups, and Monitoring.

Key responsibility area
- Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
- Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
- Logging, metrics and alerting management.
- Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
- Performing root cause analysis for production errors.

Requirement
- 2 years experience as Team Lead.
- Good Command on kubernetes.
- Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins. 
- Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
- Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
- Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache. 
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
- Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

Must Have:
Linux, CI/CD(Jenkin), AWS, Scripting(Bash,shell Python, Go), Ngnix, Docker.

Good to have
Configuration Management(Ansible or similar tool), Logging tool( ELK or similar), Monitoring tool(Ngios or similar), IaC(Terraform, cloudformation).

Role and responsibilities

• Expertise in AWS (Most typical Services),Docker & Kubernetes.
• Strong Scripting knowledge, Strong Devops Automation, Good at Linux
• Hands on with CI/CD (CircleCI preferred but any CI/CD tool will do). Strong Understanding of GitHub
• Strong understanding of AWS networking and. Strong with Security & Certificates.

Nice-to-have skills

• Involved in Product Engineering

PRAXINFO Hiring DevOps Engineer.

Position : DevOps Engineer

Job Location : C.G.Road, Ahmedabad

EXP : 1-3 Years

Salary : 40K - 50K

Required skills:

⦿ Good understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP etc)

⦿ Hands on with Docker, Kubernetes or ECS

⦿ Ideally strong Linux background (RHCSA , RHCE)

⦿ Good understanding of monitoring systems (Nagios etc), Logging solutions (Elastisearch etc)

⦿ Microservice architectures

⦿ Experience with distributed systems and highly scalable systems

⦿ Demonstrated history in automating operations processes via services and tools ( Puppet, Ansible etc)

⦿ Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.

If anyone is interested than share your resume at hiring at praxinfo dot com!

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