Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Chennai, Pune & Hyderabad

Experience: 7+ Years

Job Description:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps for services, ML jobs, and IaC.
• Containerize applications and standardize base images, build caching, and vulnerability scanning workflows.
• Automate deployments across environments (dev/test/prod), including approvals and rollback strategies.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules and release pipelines (Terraform/Bicep).
• Manage secrets, certificates, and configuration across environments (Key Vault or equivalent).
• Set up logging, monitoring, and alerting; improve reliability through SLOs and runbooks.
• Optimize build and deployment time; enforce quality gates (tests, linting, security checks).
• Collaborate on networking and security hardening, including least-privilege access for pipelines.
• Support incident response and post-incident improvements for deployment and platform issues.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps) and release management.
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and managing deployments.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or Bicep) and environment automation.
• Good understanding of Linux, networking basics, and application observability.
• Experience with security best practices in build/deploy pipelines (secrets management, scanning, approvals).
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues across build, deploy, and runtime layers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm-based deployments.
• Experience with policy-as-code and compliance controls (e.g., Azure Policy).
• Exposure to ML workloads in CI/CD (model packaging, artifact management, versioning).
• Experience with performance testing and load testing automation.

Core Tools & Technologies

• GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps pipelines
• Docker; container registries; deployment automation
• Terraform and/or Bicep; environment provisioning
• Observability stack (logs/metrics/alerts), runbooks
• Azure platform services and security controls (Key Vault, RBAC)