Sr. DevOps Engineer

Job Details

- Job Title: DevOps and SRE -Technical Project Manager

- Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provider

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 12-15 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hosur & Hyderabad

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Job Description

Company’s DevOps Practice is seeking a highly skilled DevOps and SRE Technical Project Manager to lead large-scale transformation programs for enterprise customers. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), combined with strong program management, stakeholder leadership, and the ability to drive end-to-end execution of complex initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of DevOps and SRE transformation programs for enterprise clients, including full oversight of project budgets, financials, and margins.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to define program objectives, roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics aligned with business and technology goals.
• Develop and implement actionable strategies to optimize development, deployment, release management, observability, and operational workflows across client environments.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance to cross-functional engineering teams, ensuring alignment with industry standards, best practices, and company delivery methodologies.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers across programs, and proactively implement mitigation and contingency plans.
• Monitor program performance, KPIs, and financial health; drive corrective actions and margin optimization where necessary.
• Facilitate strong communication, collaboration, and transparency across engineering, product, architecture, and leadership teams.
• Deliver periodic program updates to internal and client stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, challenges, and improvement opportunities.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation by encouraging adoption of emerging DevOps, SRE, automation, and cloud-native practices.
• Support GitHub migration initiatives, including planning, execution, troubleshooting, and governance setup for repository and workflow migrations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years in a managerial or program leadership role.
• Proven experience leading large-scale DevOps and SRE transformation programs with measurable business impact.
• Strong program management expertise, including planning, execution oversight, risk management, and financial governance.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and modern software development practices.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native tooling.
• Familiarity with SRE practices such as service reliability, observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Experience with GitHub migration projects—including repository analysis, migration planning, tooling adoption, and workflow modernization.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with a results-oriented mindset.
• Preferred certifications: PMP, PgMP, ITIL, Agile/Scrum Master, or relevant technical certifications.

Skills: Devops Tools, Cloud Infrastructure, Team Management

Must-Haves

DevOps principles (5+ years), SRE practices (5+ years), GitHub migration (3+ years), CI/CD pipelines (5+ years), Agile methodologies (5+ years)

Notice period - 0 to 15days only 

Are you eager to kick-start your career in DevOps and learn the latest technologies to solve complex problems? Do you enjoy hands-on problem-solving, exploring cloud technologies, and supporting innovative solutions? At Aivar, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team.

In this role, you will assist in the implementation and support of DevOps practices, including containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines, while learning from industry experts.

This is an exciting opportunity to grow your skills and work on transformative projects in a collaborative environment.

Requirements

Preferred Technical Qualifications

• 2 – 5 years of experience in DevOps, system administration, or software development (internship experience is acceptable).
• Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• Programming experience in Python, Java, or another language used in DevOps workflows.
• Understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Willingness to learn advanced Kubernetes concepts and troubleshooting techniques.Preferred Soft Skills

Collaboration Skills:

• Willingness to work in cross-functional teams and support the alignment of technical solutions with business goals.
• Eager to learn how to work effectively with customers, engineers, and architects to deliver DevOps solutions.

Effective Communication:

• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to team members and stakeholders.
• Desire to improve documentation and presentation skills to share ideas effectively.

Problem-Solving Mindset:

• Curiosity to explore and learn solutions for infrastructure challenges in DevOps environments.
• Interest in learning how to diagnose and resolve issues in containerized and
•  distributed systems.

Adaptability and Continuous Learning:

• Strong desire to learn emerging DevOps tools and practices in a dynamic environment.
• Commitment to staying updated with trends in cloud computing, DevOps, and

Team-Oriented Approach:

• Enthusiastic about contributing to a collaborative team environment and supporting
• overall project goals.
• Open to feedback and actively sharing knowledge to help the team grow.

Certifications (Optional but Preferred)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or equivalent Linux Foundation
• certification
• Any beginner-level certifications in DevOps or cloud services are a plus. 
• Any AWS Certification

Why Join Aivar?

At Aivar, we are re-imagining analytics consulting by integrating AI and machine learning to create repeatable solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes. With a culture centered on innovation, collaboration, and growth, we provide opportunities to work on transformative projects across industries.

About Diversity and Inclusion

We believe diversity drives innovation and growth. Our inclusive environment encourages individuals of all backgrounds to contribute their unique perspectives to shape the future and analytics.

Role: Full-Time, Long-Term Required: Docker, GCP, CI/CD Preferred: Experience with ML pipelines

OVERVIEW

We are seeking a DevOps engineer to join as a core member of our technical team. This is a long-term position for someone who wants to own infrastructure and deployment for a production machine learning system. You will ensure our prediction pipeline runs reliably, deploys smoothly, and scales as needed.

The ideal candidate thinks about failure modes obsessively, automates everything possible, and builds systems that run without constant attention.

CORE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Docker (Required): Deep experience with containerization. Efficient Dockerfiles, layer caching, multi-stage builds, debugging container issues. Experience with Docker Compose for local development.

Google Cloud Platform (Required): Strong GCP experience: Cloud Run for serverless containers, Compute Engine for VMs, Artifact Registry for images, Cloud Storage, IAM. You can navigate the console but prefer scripting everything.

CI/CD (Required): Build and maintain deployment pipelines. GitHub Actions required. You automate testing, building, pushing, and deploying. You understand the difference between continuous integration and continuous deployment.

Linux Administration (Required): Comfortable on the command line. SSH, diagnose problems, manage services, read logs, fix things. Bash scripting is second nature.

PostgreSQL (Required): Database administration basics—backups, monitoring, connection management, basic performance tuning. Not a DBA, but comfortable keeping a production database healthy.

Infrastructure as Code (Preferred): Terraform, Pulumi, or similar. Infrastructure should be versioned, reviewed, and reproducible—not clicked together in a console.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

Deployment Pipeline: Maintaining and improving deployment scripts and CI/CD workflows. Code moves from commit to production reliably with appropriate testing gates.

Cloud Run Services: Managing deployments for model fitting, data cleansing, and signal discovery services. Monitor health, optimize cold starts, handle scaling.

VM Infrastructure: PostgreSQL and Streamlit on GCP VMs. Instance management, updates, backups, security.

Container Registry: Managing images in GitHub Container Registry and Google Artifact Registry. Cleanup policies, versioning, access control.

Monitoring and Alerting: Building observability. Logging, metrics, health checks, alerting. Know when things break before users tell us.

Environment Management: Configuration across local and production. Secrets management. Environment parity where it matters.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Deployments are boring—no drama, no surprises. Systems recover automatically from transient failures. Engineers deploy with confidence. Infrastructure changes are versioned and reproducible. Costs are reasonable and resources scale appropriately.

ENGINEERING STANDARDS

Automation First: If you do something twice, automate it. Manual processes are bugs waiting to happen.

Documentation: Runbooks, architecture diagrams, deployment guides. The next person can understand and operate the system.

Security Mindset: Secrets never in code. Least-privilege access. You think about attack surfaces.

Reliability Focus: Design for failure. Backups are tested. Recovery procedures exist and work.

CURRENT ENVIRONMENT

GCP (Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Artifact Registry, Cloud Storage), Docker, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL 16, Bash deployment scripts with Python wrapper.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Ownership Mentality: You see a problem, you fix it. You do not wait for assignment.

Calm Under Pressure: When production breaks, you diagnose methodically.

Communication: You explain infrastructure decisions to non-infrastructure people. You document what you build.

Long-Term Thinking: You build systems maintained for years, not quick fixes creating tech debt.

EDUCATION

University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred. Equivalent demonstrated expertise also considered.

TO APPLY

Include: (1) CV/resume, (2) Brief description of infrastructure you built or maintained, (3) Links to relevant work if available, (4) Availability and timezone.

GCP Cloud Engineer:

• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Shell). Knowing python is must.
• Collaborate with teams across the company (i.e., network, security, operations) to build complete cloud offerings.
• Design Disaster Recovery and backup strategies to meet application objectives.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

A DevSecOps Staff Engineer integrates security into DevOps practices, designing secure CI/CD

pipelines, building and automating secure cloud infrastructure and ensuring compliance across

development, operations, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines utilizing DevSecOps principles and

practices to increase automation and reduce human involvement in the process

• Integrate tools of SAST, DAST, SCA, etc. within pipelines to enable automated application

building, testing, securing and deployment.

• Implement security controls for cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), including IAM, container

security (EKS/ECS), and data encryption for services like S3 or BigQuery, etc.

• Automate vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and compliance processes by collaborating

with DevOps and Development teams to minimize risks in deployment pipelines.

• Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.

• Review cloud deployment architectures and implement required security controls.

• Mentor other engineers on security practices and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in CS or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of overall industry experience with AWS Certified - Security Specialist.• Must have implementation experience using security tools and processes related to SAST,

DAST and Pen Testing

• AWS-specific: 5+ years’ experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g.

EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, VPC, CloudWatch) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based

cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.

• Experienced with CI/CD tool chain (GitHub Actions, Packages, Jenkins, etc.)

• Passionate about solving security challenges and being informed of available and

emerging security threats and various security technologies.

• Must be familiar with the OWASP Top 10 Security Risks and Controls

• Good skills in at least one or more scripting languages: Python, Bash

• Good knowledge in Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or other cluster management software.

• Willing to work in shifts as required

Good to Have

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

• Observability: Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. CloudWatch, New Relic,

etc.).

• Experience with Terraform/Ansible/Chef/Puppet

• Operating Systems: Windows and Linux system administration.

Perks:

● Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month)

● Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being

● Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program

● Paid paternity and maternity leaves

• Work towards improving the following 4 verticals - scalability, availability, security, and cost, for company's workflows and products.
• Help in provisioning, managing, optimizing cloud infrastructure in AWS (IAM, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, ECS, Lambda, ELK etc.)
• Work with the development teams to design scalable, robust systems using cloud architecture for both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 products.
• Drive technical initiatives and architectural service improvements.
• Be able to predict problems and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages.
• Mentor/manage a team of engineers.
• Design solutions with failure scenarios in mind to ensure reliability.
• Document rigorously to keep track of all changes/upgrades to the infrastructure and as well share knowledge with the rest of the team
• Identify vulnerabilities during development with actionable information to empower developers to remediate vulnerabilities
• Automate the build and testing processes to consistently integrate code
• Manage changes to documents, software, images, large web sites, and other collections of code, configuration, and metadata among disparate teams

• Work with developers to build out CI/CD pipelines, enable self-service build tools and reusable deployment jobs. Find, explore, and advocate for new technologies for enterprise use.
• Automate the provisioning of environments
• Promote new DevOps tools to simplify the build process and entire Continuous Delivery.
• Manage a Continuous Integration and Deployment environment.
• Coordinate and scale the evolving build and cloud deployment systems across all product development teams.
• Work independently, with, and across teams. Establishing smooth running. environments are paramount to your success, and happiness
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the[1]box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity.

Technical Skills

• Experience with AWS multi-region/multi-AZ deployed systems, auto-scaling of EC2 instances, CloudFormation, ELBs, VPCs, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, S3, Route53, RDS, IAM roles, security groups, cloud watch
• Experience in Data Visualization and Monitoring tools such as Grafana and Kibana
• Experienced in Build and CI/CD/CT technologies like GitHub, Chef, Artifactory, Hudson/Jenkins
• Experience with log collection, filter creation, and analysis, builds, and performance monitoring/tuning of infrastructure.
• Automate the provisioning of environments pulling strings with Puppet, cooking up some recipes with Chef, or through Ansible, and the deployment of those environments using containers, like Docker or Rocket: (have at least some configuration management tool through some version control).

Qualifications:

• B.E/ B.Tech/ M.C.A in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 60% in Graduation and Post-Graduation.
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

• Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
• Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
• Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
• Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?

Your bucket of undertakings:

• This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other
• Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
• Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
• Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
• Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications
• Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in AWS
• Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas
• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation • Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc. • • Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality. Highly organised and efficient. Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Education, Experience, etc.

• To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
• 6 - 10 years of experience with at least 5 - 6 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Computing
• (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
• Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
• Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as AWS and lean development methodologies.

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.

THE OPPORTUNITY

A platform to learn and grow in a great working environment with cutting edge technologies. There is vast opportunity to showcase creative thinking which can be translated into a highly optimized tools/utilities.

KEY ACTIVITIES

• Code Integrations ( Compile, Build, Notify )
• Package creation ( Service Packs, Patches, Hotfixes )
•  Environment Preparation ( With GOLD SCM technical stack )
•  Environment & Infra management
•  Package delivery ( Customer specific & Standard )
• Build & Deployment automation
• Tickets management

KEY CRITERIA

Primary Technical Skills  

• Shell Scripting
• ORACLE DB Fundamentals
• Infra Monitoring & Diagnostics
• ClearCase / GIT
• DevOps concepts
• Basic Java

Other Required Skills

• Problem Solving
• Logical Reasoning
• Aptitude & Attitude
• Communication (Verbal & Written)