DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

An Azure Administrator is a specialized IT professional responsible for implementing, monitoring, and maintaining Microsoft Azure solutions, including major computing, storage, network, and security services. They ensure that Azure services are running optimally and securely, aligning with the organization's requirements and industry best practices.

Azure stands out as the top cloud computing platform, empowering businesses globally to optimize their operations. Beyond Azure services, it delivers cutting-edge AI solutions, powerful data analytics, top-tier security measures, machine learning advancements, natural language processing, and seamless IoT management, among other innovative features

Roles and Responsibility ::

• Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources
• Implementing and Managing Storage Solutions
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
• Managing Identities and Access
• Deploying and Managing Azure Compute Resources
• Monitoring and Maintaining Azure Resources

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing our cloud infrastructure on AWS, while utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and Argo CD for containerization and deployment. You will collaborate closely with development teams to ensure smooth software releases, scalability, and reliability of our systems. Also, you will be working on Airflow and Spark configurations for Data pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, utilizing services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and Lambda.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and configuration of AWS resources.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability of the system.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth and efficient software releases, including version control, branching strategies, and release management.
• Implement and maintain robust security practices, including access control, network security, and data encryption.
• Automate manual tasks and processes using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and implement best practices for infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest DevOps tools, technologies, and best practices, and identify opportunities for improvement and optimization in our infrastructure and processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a focus on AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Argo CD.
• Strong experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, including services like EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and Lambda.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline setup and management using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and experience with tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certifications, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, ELK stack, or Prometheus/Grafana.
• Knowledge of serverless architectures and experience with AWS Lambda.
• Familiarity with other cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Understanding of security best practices and experience implementing security measures in cloud infrastructure.

At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for talented Azure Cloud Devops engineer to join our Cloud Infrastructure team at Chennai.

Please find below our job description, if interested apply / reply sharing your profile to connect and discuss.

Company: BigThinkCode Technologies

URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/

Role: Devops Engineer

Experience required: 3–5 years

Work location: Chennai

Joining time: Immediate – 2 weeks

Work Mode: Work from office (Hybrid)

About the Role:

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience to build and manage CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, containerized deployments, and operational monitoring. The engineer will work closely with Architects, Developers, QA, and Integration teams to deliver secure, scalable, and production-ready applications across AWS and Microsoft Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities

· Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.

· Deploy, manage, and monitor applications on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.

· Build and manage containerized applications using Docker.

· Provision cloud infrastructure using Terraform or Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

· Configure IAM, Key Vault/Secrets Manager, networking, SSL, and secure deployments.

· Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.

· Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot build, deployment, and production issues.

· Maintain deployment documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Required Skills & Qualifications

· 3+ years of experience in DevOps / Cloud / Infrastructure Engineering.

· Strong understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD practices.

· Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.

· Experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools.

· Strong Linux administration skills.

· Hands-on experience with Docker and container lifecycle management.

· Working knowledge of Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.

·  Experience with cloud services such as:

· AWS: EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, ECR

· Azure: App Services, Container Apps, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Azure Container Registry

· Good understanding of networking concepts (DNS, SSL, Load Balancers, Firewalls, Virtual Networks).

· Basic operational knowledge of PostgreSQL/MySQL.

· Strong troubleshooting and production support skills.

Good to Have

· Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) or Azure Container Apps.

· Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor.

· Experience with GitHub Enterprise, Branch Protection, and CI/CD quality gates.

· Exposure to security tools such as CodeQL, Dependabot, Trivy, or SonarQube.

· Shell, Bash, PowerShell, or Python scripting.

· Experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), OAuth, or SSO.

· Exposure to enterprise integration environments (Oracle, Kafka, REST APIs, OIC).

Soft Skills

· Strong ownership and problem-solving mindset.

· Good communication and documentation skills.

· Ability to work collaboratively in Agile teams.

· Passion for automation, security, and continuous improvement. 

Strong Lead DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer Profiles.

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of hands-on experience working as a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer.

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Candidate’s current title must be Lead DevOps Engineer (or equivalent Lead role) in the current organization

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have minimum 2+ years of team management / technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers, driving infrastructure decisions, or leading DevOps initiatives.

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (container orchestration) including deployment, scaling, and cluster management.

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have strong scripting and automation experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.

Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have working experience with distributed databases or data systems such as MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, or Puppet.

Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have strong hands-on experience in Observability & Monitoring, CI/CD architecture, and Networking concepts in production environments.

Mandatory (Company) – Candidates must be from Good / Well Funded / Early Stage Product-based companies.

Mandatory (Education) –B.E/ B.Tech

ketteQ is a supply chain planning and automation platform. We are looking for an experienced AWS Devops Engineer to help manage AWS infrastructure and automation.  This job comes with a attractive compensation package, work-from-home and flex-time benefits. You will get to work on projects for large global brands with a highly experienced team based in US and India. If you are high-energy, motivated, and initiative-taking individual then this could be a fantastic opportunity for you. Candidates must meet the following requirements:

Duties & Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system
• Build a deployment pipeline for AWS and Salesforce
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as cloud formation template
• 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

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, Fargate, S3, Cloud Formation)
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
• Experience with Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Cloud Formation and deploying applications on AWS
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Database experience to help with monitoring and performance; PostgreSql experience preferred
• AWS certification preferred

Education

• Bachelors in Engineering or related field

1. Develop and Deploy Software:
1. Architect and create an effective build and release process using industry best practices and tools
2. Create and manage build scripts to deploy software in a multi-cloud environment
3. Look for opportunities to automate as much of the deployment process as possible to provide for repeatability, auditability, scalability and build in process enforcement
2. Manage Release Schedule:
1. Act as a “gate keeper” for all releases into production
2. Work closely with business stakeholders, development managers and developers to prepare a release schedule
3. Help prioritize deployment requests for version upgrades, patches and hot-fixes
3. Continuous Delivery of Software:
1. Implement Continuous Integration (CI) practices to drive development teams to implement smaller changes and commit code to the version control repo frequently
2. Implement Continuous Development (CD) practices that automates deployment of the application to several environments – Dev, Test and Production
3. Implement Continuous Testing (functional and non-functional) to execute tests in the CI/CD pipeline
4. Manage Version Control:
1. Define and implement branching policies to efficiently manage source-code
2. Implement business rules as a part of source control standards
5. Resolve Software Issues:
1. Assist technical support and development teams to troubleshoot issues and identify areas that need improvement
2. Address deployment related issues
6. Maintain Release Documentation:
1. Maintain release notes (features available in stable versions and known issues) and other documents for both internal and external end users

Role Purpose:

As a DevOps ,  You should be strong in both the Dev and Ops part of DevOps. We are looking for someone who has a deep understanding of systems architecture, understands core CS concepts well, and is able to reason about system behaviour rather than merely working with the toolset of the day. We believe that only such a person will be able to set a compelling direction for the team and excite those around them. 

If you are someone who fits the description above, you will find that the rewards are well worth the high bar. Being one of the early hires of the Bangalore office, you will have a significant impact on the culture and the team; you will work with a set of energetic and hungry peers who will challenge you, and you will have considerable international exposure and opportunity for impact across departments.

Responsibilities

1. Deployment, management, and administration of web services in a public cloud environment
2. Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments
3. Design and develop continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions from development through production
4. Own all operational aspects of running web services including automation, monitoring and alerting, reliability and performance
5. Have direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems
6. Drive solutions and communication for production impacting incidents
7. Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries
8. Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or closely related field
2. 4 - 6 years professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix
3. Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services
4. Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash
5. Deep experience administering, running and deploying AWS based services
6. Solid experience with Terraform, Packer and Docker or their equivalents
7. Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
8. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills 
9. Broad experience with cloud hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
10. Curiosity, continuous learning and drive to continually raise the bar
11. Strong partnering and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

1. Past experience as a senior developer or application architect strongly preferred.
2. Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
3. Experience with Zookeeper, Consul, HAProxy, ELK-Stack, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
4. Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...)
5. Experience with AWS orchestration services such as ECS and EKS.
6. Experience working with AWS ML pipeline services like AWS Sagemak

Experience of Linux

Experience using Python or Shell scripting (for Automation) 

Hands-on experience with Implementation of CI/CD Processes 

Experience working  with one cloud platforms (AWS or Azure or Google) 

Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible & Chef 

Experience working with   Containerization tool Docker.

Experience working with Container Orchestration tool Kubernetes.

Experience in source Control Management including SVN and/or Bitbucket

& GitHub

Experience with setup & management of monitoring tools like Nagios, Sensu & Prometheus or any other popular tools 

Hands-on experience in Linux, Scripting Language & AWS is mandatory

Troubleshoot and Triage development, Production issues

Your skills and experience should cover:

• 5+ years of experience with developing, deploying, and debugging solutions on the AWS platform using ALL AWS services such as S3, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Cognito, Cloudtrail, CodePipeline, Cloud Formation, Cloudwatch and WAF (Web Application Firewall).

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Developer: Associate, is required; Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Engineer: Professional, preferred.

• 5+ years of experience using one or more modern programming languages (Python, Node.js).

• Hands-on experience migrating data to the AWS cloud platform

• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodology.

• Good understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices (including security and scalability)

• Experience with AWS Data Storage Tools.

• Experience in Configure and implement AWS tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail and direct system logs for monitoring.

• Experience working with GIT, or similar tools.

• Ability to communicate and represent AWS Recommendations and Standards.

The following areas are highly advantageous:

• Experience with Docker

• Experience with PostgreSQL database