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 

Required Skills: Advanced AWS Infrastructure Expertise, CI/CD Pipeline Automation, Monitoring, Observability & Incident Management, Security, Networking & Risk Management, Infrastructure as Code & Scripting

Criteria:

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies (B2C scale preferred)
• Strong hands-on AWS expertise across core and advanced services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, VPC, IAM, ELB/ALB, Route53)
• Proven experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud architectures for large-scale traffic
• Strong experience building & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins mandatory; GitHub Actions/GitLab CI a plus)
• Prior experience running production-grade microservices deployments and automated rollout strategies (Blue/Green, Canary)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience with MongoDB in production, including performance tuning, indexing & replication
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Shell, Python) for automation
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, security groups)
• Strong experience in incident management, root cause analysis & production firefighting

Description

Role Overview

Company is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS, automate CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring and security frameworks, and proactively identify scalability challenges. This role requires someone who has hands-on experience running infrastructure at B2C product scale, ideally in media/OTT or high-traffic applications.

 Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Infrastructure — AWS (Primary Focus)

• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, ELB/ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, etc.
• Optimize cloud cost, resource utilization, and performance across environments.
• Design high-availability, fault-tolerant systems for streaming workloads.

2. CI/CD Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Automate deployments for microservices, mobile apps, and backend APIs.
• Implement blue/green and canary deployments for seamless production rollouts.

3. Observability & Monitoring

• Implement logging, metrics, and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.
• Perform proactive performance analysis to minimize downtime and bottlenecks.
• Set up dashboards for real-time visibility into system health and user traffic spikes.

4. Security, Compliance & Risk Highlighting

• Conduct frequent risk assessments and identify vulnerabilities in:

  o Cloud architecture

  o Access policies (IAM)

  o Secrets & key management

  o Data flows & network exposure

• Implement security best practices including VPC isolation, WAF rules, firewall policies, and SSL/TLS management.

5. Scalability & Reliability Engineering

• Analyze traffic patterns for OTT-specific load variations (weekends, new releases, peak hours).
• Identify scalability gaps and propose solutions across:
•   o Microservices
•   o Caching layers
•   o CDN distribution (CloudFront)
•   o Database workloads
• Perform capacity planning and load testing to ensure readiness for 10x traffic growth.

6. Database & Storage Support

• Administer and optimize MongoDB for high-read/low-latency use cases.
• Design backup, recovery, and data replication strategies.
• Work closely with backend teams to tune query performance and indexing.

7. Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Implement IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks to ensure consistency across environments.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (core and advanced services).
• Expertise in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid background working with MongoDB in production environments.
• Good understanding of networking: VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT, routing.
• Strong scripting experience (Bash, Python, Shell).
• Experience handling risk identification, root cause analysis, and incident management.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OTT, video streaming, media, or any content-heavy product environments.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and service mesh.
• Understanding of CDN, caching, and streaming pipelines.

Personality & Mindset

• Strong sense of ownership and urgency—DevOps is mission critical at OTT scale.
• Proactive problem solver with ability to think about long-term scalability.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional engineering teams.

Why Join company?

• Build and operate infrastructure powering millions of monthly users.

• Opportunity to shape DevOps culture and cloud architecture from the ground up.

• High-impact role in a fast-scaling Indian OTT product.

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 2–5 years

Type: Full-time | On-site

Open Roles: 1

Start: Immediate

Why this role exists

Most engineering teams choose between speed and stability.

We need both.

Today:

• Deployments carry risk
• Cloud costs are higher than they should be
• Compliance is reactive, not built-in

This role exists to build a platform where:

• We can deploy fast without breaking production
• We can scale without runaway cost
• We can pass enterprise InfoSec reviews without firefighting

What you’ll do

You will not just manage infrastructure.

You will build the platform that engineering runs on.

1. Drive cloud cost efficiency

• Reduce Azure compute spend by 40%
• Implement:
• Reserved Instances / savings plans
• Right-sizing of workloads
• Scheduling for non-critical workloads
• Continuously monitor and optimize cost vs performance

2. Build zero-downtime deployment systems

• Ship a deployment pipeline that supports:
• 5+ production deployments per week
• Zero customer-visible downtime
• Implement:
• Blue-green / canary deployments
• Automated health checks
• Safe rollout strategies

3. Enable fast and safe releases

• Reduce time-to-launch significantly
• Ensure:
• High reliability in every release
• Ability to rollback instantly if something breaks
• Create systems where:
• Scaling up is seamless when things go right
• Failures are contained when they don’t

4. Build disaster recovery and compliance readiness

• Create DR/BCP systems that pass enterprise audits from:
• HDFC Life, SBI Life
• Ensure:
• Backup and recovery processes are defined and tested
• Failover strategies are documented and executable
• Build compliance as part of the system, not an afterthought

5. Embed security into the pipeline

• Integrate:
• SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
• DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)
• SCA (Software Composition Analysis)
• Secret scanning
• Container scanning
• IaC scanning
• Ensure vulnerabilities are caught before deployment

6. Enforce policy-as-code

• Implement:
• OPA / Gatekeeper
• Azure Policy
• Prevent non-compliant infrastructure from being deployed
• Ensure consistency across environments

7. Build a scalable platform layer

• Create systems that:
• Support increasing deployment frequency
• Maintain reliability under scale
• Work closely with backend and SRE teams to:
• Improve system stability
• Reduce operational overhead

What success looks like

• Cloud costs reduce by ≥ 40%
• Deployments are:
• Frequent
• Safe
• Invisible to customers
• Rollbacks are instant and reliable
• DR/BCP passes enterprise audits in the first attempt
• Security is embedded in the pipeline, not patched later
• Engineering teams ship faster with confidence

Who you are

• You have 2-5 years of experience in DevOps / Platform Engineering
• You have worked with:
• Cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• CI/CD systems
• Infrastructure as Code
• You think in:
• Systems
• Trade-offs (speed vs reliability vs cost)
• You are comfortable owning:
• Production infrastructure
• Deployment systems

What will make you stand out

• Experience with:
• High-frequency deployment systems
• Cost optimization at scale
• Security-first pipelines
• Strong understanding of:
• Kubernetes / container orchestration
• Monitoring and observability
• Distributed system reliability
• Experience passing enterprise security/compliance audits

Why join

• You will define how engineering ships and scales
• Your work directly impacts:
• Reliability
• Cost
• Deployment velocity
• You will build a platform that moves from:
• Fragile → predictable and scalable

What this role is not

• Not manual infra management
• Not reactive firefighting
• Not limited to CI/CD maintenance

What this role is

• A builder of deployment systems
• A driver of cost efficiency
• A guardian of reliability and compliance

One question to self-evaluate

Can you build a platform where we deploy faster, spend less, and never break production?

Candidate must be from a product-based company with experience handling large-scale production traffic.

2. Candidate must have strong Linux expertise with hands-on production troubleshooting and working knowledge of databases and middleware (Mongo, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka).

3. Candidate must have solid experience with Kubernetes.

4. Candidate should have strong knowledge of configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Chef / Puppet. Add on- Prometheus & Grafana etc.

5. Candidate must be an individual contributor with strong ownership.

6. Candidate must have hands-on experience with DATABASE MIGRATIONS and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

7. Candidate must have working knowledge of Go/Python and Java.

8. Candidate should have working experience on Cloud platform - AWS

9. Candidate should have Minimum 1.5 years stability per organization, and a clear reason for relocation

General Description:Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications

Participates in the design and development of systems & application programs

Functions as Senior member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices – tools, common components, and documentation

Required Skills:

In depth experience configuring and administering EKS clusters in AWS.

In depth experience in configuring **Splunk SaaS** in AWS environments especially in **EKS**

In depth understanding of OpenTelemetry and configuration of **OpenTelemetry Collectors**

In depth knowledge of observability concepts and strong troubleshooting experience.

Experience in implementing comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions in AWS using **CloudWatch**.

Experience in **Terraform** and Infrastructure as code.

Experience in **Helm**Strong scripting skills in Shell and/or python.

Experience with large-scale distributed systems and architecture knowledge (Linux/UNIX and Windows operating systems, networking, storage) in a cloud computing or traditional IT infrastructure environment.

Must have a good understanding of cloud concepts (Storage /compute/network).

Experience collaborating with several cross functional teams to architect observability pipelines for various GCP services like GKE, cloud run Big Query etc.

Experience with Git and GitHub.Experience with code build and deployment using GitHub actions, and Artifact Registry.

Proficient in developing and maintaining technical documentation, ADRs, and runbooks.

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure, with a focus on scalability, security, and cost optimization.

- Collaborate with development teams to streamline the deployment process, ensuring smooth and efficient delivery of software applications.

- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI to automate build, test, and deployment processes.

- Utilize infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles to create and manage infrastructure deployments using Terraform, ARM templates, or similar tools.

- Manage and monitor containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or other container orchestration platforms.

- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for cloud-based infrastructure and applications.

- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues, working closely with development and operations teams.

- Ensure high availability, performance, and security of cloud infrastructure and applications.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and best practices in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and automation.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

- Minimum of four years of proven experience working as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on cloud infrastructure and deployment automation.

- Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure services, including but not limited to Azure Virtual Machines, Azure App Service, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure Security, and Azure Monitor.

- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.

- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration platforms, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Docker Swarm.

- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with relevant tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

- Experience with scripting languages like PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation tasks.

- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with a proactive and analytical mindset.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

- Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus.

• Design, Develop, deploy, and run operations of infrastructure services in the Acqueon AWS cloud environment
• Manage uptime of Infra & SaaS Application
• Implement application performance monitoring to ensure platform uptime and performance
• Building scripts for operational automation and incident response
• Handle schedule and processes surrounding cloud application deployment
• Define, measure, and meet key operational metrics including performance, incidents and chronic problems, capacity, and availability
• Lead the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support of operating systems (Windows, Linux)
• Build out lifecycle processes to mitigate risk and ensure platforms remain current, in accordance with industry standard methodologies
• Run incident resolution within the environment, facilitating teamwork with other departments as required
• Automate the deployment of new software to cloud environment in coordination with DevOps engineers
• Work closely with Presales, understand customer requirement to deploy in Production
• Lead and mentor a team of operations engineers
• Drive the strategy to evolve and modernize existing tools and processes to enable highly secure and scalable operations
• AWS infrastructure management, provisioning, cost management and planning
• Prepare RCA incident reports for internal and external customers
• Participate in product engineering meetings to ensure product features and patches comply with cloud deployment standards
• Troubleshoot and analyse performance issues and customer reported incidents working to restore services within the SLA
• Monthly SLA Performance reports

As a Cloud Operations Manager in Acqueon you will need…. 

• 8 years’ progressive experience managing IT infrastructure and global cloud environments such as AWS, GCP (must)
• 3-5 years management experience leading a Cloud Operations / Site Reliability / Production Engineering team working with globally distributed teams in a fast-paced environment
• 3-5 years’ experience in IAC (Terraform, K8)
• 3+ years end-to-end incident management experience
• Experience with communicating and presenting to all stakeholders
• Experience with Cloud Security compliance and audits
• Detail-oriented. The ideal candidate is one who naturally digs as deep as they need to understand the why
• Knowledge on GCP will be added advantage
• Manage and monitor customer instances for uptime and reliability
• Staff scheduling and planning to ensure 24x7x365 coverage for cloud operations
• Customer facing, excellent communication skills, team management, troubleshooting

DevOps 

Engineers : Min 3 to 5 Years 
Tech Leads : Min 6 to 10 Years 

• Implementing & supporting CI/CD/CT pipelines at scale.  
• Knowledge and experience using Chef, Puppet or Ansible automation to deploy and be able to manage Linux systems in production and CI environments.  
• Extensive experience with Shell scripts (bash).  
• Knowledge and practical experience of Jenkins for CI.  
• Experienced in build & release management.  
• Experience of deploying JVM based applications.  
• Enterprise AWS deployment with sound knowledge on AWS & AWS security.  
• Knowledge of encryption technologies: IPSec, SSL, SSH. 
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Linux Systems Engineer (CentOS/Red Hat) ideally supporting a highly-available, 24x7 production environments. 
• DNS providing and maintenance.  
• Helpful skills: Knowledge of applications relying on Maven, Ant, Gradle, Spring Boot.  
• Knowledge of app and server monitoring tools such as ELK/AppEngine. 
• Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills.