Aws Devops Engineer

Tekskills Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills Inc. in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, is seeking an experienced DevOps/SRE professional to strengthen AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation platforms.

The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and secure deployment practices across Kubernetes and containerized workloads. The candidate will work with Istio, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, and Helm to design, implement, and optimize infrastructure automation, monitoring, and incident response for complex client

Qualifications

• 7-8+ years of experience in AWS DevOps and CI/CD.
• Proficient in core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM) and GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and automation scripting (Python, Terraform).
• Hands-on experience with GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, and service mesh.

Responsibilities

• Code infrastructure automation across the deployment pipeline.
• Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure for scalability and reliability.
• Support and maintain existing lab infrastructure using defined processes.
• Evaluate new and existing server capabilities to meet app and service requirements.
• Manage Jenkins and spin up EC2 instances.
• Handle Helm, Kubernetes (Kops & EKS), and shared pipelines in client environments.
• Leverage Istio and Python to enhance service mesh and automation.

Skills

SRE

AWS

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

GitLab

Jenkins

Python

Istio

Tools

Docker

Helm

Kops

EKS

Terraform

Job description

Job Summary

Job Description and Must Have Skills: SRE, AWS, Kubernetes; Expertise in Ansible and Terraform. Candidates should have 7+ years of experience in AWS DevOps in CI/CD, SRE, and monitoring infrastructure, with AWS as the suggested cloud platform, and tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, Python/shell scripting. Experience with Istio and Python; Service Mesh would be a significant advantage.

Responsibilities

• Coding infrastructure automation across the pipeline.
• As the solution scales, ensure reliability through designing, building, and maintaining the core infrastructure.
• Support and maintain existing lab infrastructure leveraging defined ticketing and resource scheduling processes.
• Participates in evaluation of new and existing server infrastructure capabilities and features, to ensure requirements are met for both existing applications and new product services.
• Jenkins and spinning up EC2 instances.
• Client environment includes a complex tool stack, starting from Helm and Kubernetes (both Kops and EKS) to shared pipelines.
• Candidates whose recent roles involve working extensively with technologies like Helm, GitLab, and Kubernetes, with AWS as their primary cloud platform.
• Experience with Istio and Python would be a significant advantage.

Requirements

• Experience: Candidates should have 7-8+ years of experience in AWS DevOps.
• AWS Expertise: Proficient in core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, and IAM), pipeline automation like Gitlab CICD, Helm charts.
• DevOps Practices: Strong understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automation: Experience with automation frameworks and scripting languages (Python, Terraform, etc.).
• Tools: Familiarity with tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Service Mesh.