Devops Architect

Kryon Knowledge Works Group; Chennai District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Kryon Knowledge Works Group in Chennai is seeking a senior DevOps Architect with 10+ years experience to shape automation, CI/CD, and platform engineering for a next-generation building-management platform. The role emphasizes architecture over development, focusing on provisioning, deployment, security, monitoring, and operations in a primarily on-prem/private-cloud setting.

You will collaborate with a US Cloud Architect, a Kubernetes Lead in India, and cross-functional teams to define

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or infra automation.
• 4+ years as DevOps Architect, Platform Architect, or senior platform-engineering role.
• Strong experience designing enterprise CI/CD platforms.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based deployment models.
• Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent.
• Strong experience with CI/CD and GitOps technologies such as: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Argo CD, Flux.
• Experience designing DevOps architecture for on-premises, hybrid-cloud, or private-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps and platform-engineering architecture workstream.
• Assess the customer's existing CI/CD pipelines, automation, release management, and operational tooling.
• Identify AWS-specific tooling and services that create platform dependencies.
• Define a cloud-agnostic/on-premises DevOps architecture.
• Define CI/CD architecture for application and platform components.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code standards and reusable automation patterns.
• Define Git repository, branching, artifact-management, and environment-promotion strategies.
• Define GitOps approaches for Kubernetes platform and workload deployment.
• Define configuration-management and secrets-management architecture.
• Define container-image build, scanning, registry, promotion, and lifecycle-management patterns.
• Design automated infrastructure and Kubernetes provisioning workflows.
• Define environment-management approaches across development, test, staging, and production.
• Define automated deployment, rollback, patching, and upgrade patterns.
• Establish platform observability architecture covering metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards, tracing, platform health monitoring.
• Define DevSecOps controls and integration points for security scanning, vulnerability management, secrets, certificates, and policy enforcement.
• Define operational-readiness requirements, including backup, recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring, and supportability.
• Recommend on-premises alternatives for AWS-native DevOps services where required.
• Work with the Kubernetes Lead to ensure automation patterns align with the Kubernetes target architecture.
• Work with the US Cloud Architect to integrate DevOps architecture into the overall target-state architecture.
• Produce reference architectures, technical standards, workflow diagrams, tooling recommendations, and implementation patterns.
• Support proof-of-concept or reference implementation activities.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Configuration Management

AWS

On-Premises

Private Cloud

DevSecOps

Observability

Automation

Release Engineering

Reference Architecture

Tools

OpenShift

VMware

Nutanix

Rancher

Harbor

Nexus

Artifactory

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK/OpenSearch

Terraform

Job description

Job Summary

Role Overview

We are looking for an 10+ years experienced DevOps Architect to help define the automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, platform-engineering, and operational architecture for a next-generation building-management platform.

The existing application is a monolithic platform that is tightly coupled with AWS services. The objective of the engagement is to assess the current architecture and define a scalable and portable target architecture, expected to run primarily in an on-premises/private-cloud environment.

This role will focus on DevOps and platform architecture rather than application development or application modernization. The DevOps Architect will determine how the future platform should be provisioned, deployed, configured, secured, upgraded, monitored, and operated.

The role will work closely with a US-based Cloud Architect, Kubernetes Lead in India, application teams, infrastructure teams, and customer stakeholders.

Engagement Phases

Discovery & Architecture Assessment

• Assess the current build, deployment, release, infrastructure, and operational processes.
• Identify dependencies on AWS-native DevOps and infrastructure services.
• Review CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, configuration management, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Identify architectural gaps that affect scalability, portability, repeatability, and resilience.

Reference Architecture

• Define the DevOps and platform-engineering reference architecture.
• Develop CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management, observability, and release-management patterns.
• Develop representative automation and reference implementation patterns.
• Validate architectural recommendations.

A subsequent implementation/build phase is expected after completion of the reference architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps and platform-engineering architecture workstream.
• Assess the customer's existing CI/CD pipelines, automation, release management, and operational tooling.
• Identify AWS-specific tooling and services that create platform dependencies.
• Define a cloud-agnostic/on-premises DevOps architecture.
• Define CI/CD architecture for application and platform components.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code standards and reusable automation patterns.
• Define Git repository, branching, artifact-management, and environment-promotion strategies.
• Define GitOps approaches for Kubernetes platform and workload deployment.
• Define configuration-management and secrets-management architecture.
• Define container-image build, scanning, registry, promotion, and lifecycle-management patterns.
• Design automated infrastructure and Kubernetes provisioning workflows.
• Define environment-management approaches across development, test, staging, and production.
• Define automated deployment, rollback, patching, and upgrade patterns.
• Establish platform observability architecture covering:
• Metrics
• Logging
• Alerting
• Dashboards
• Distributed tracing
• Platform health monitoring
• Define DevSecOps controls and integration points for security scanning, vulnerability management, secrets, certificates, and policy enforcement.
• Define operational-readiness requirements, including backup, recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring, and supportability.
• Recommend on-premises alternatives for AWS-native DevOps services where required.
• Work with the Kubernetes Lead to ensure automation patterns align with the Kubernetes target architecture.
• Work with the US Cloud Architect to integrate DevOps architecture into the overall target-state architecture.
• Produce reference architectures, technical standards, workflow diagrams, tooling recommendations, and implementation patterns.
• Support proof-of-concept or reference implementation activities.

Requirements

Required Experience

• 8+ years of DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure-automation experience.
• 4+ years in a DevOps Architect, Platform Architect, or senior platform-engineering role.
• Strong experience designing enterprise CI/CD platforms.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based deployment models.
• Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent.
• Strong experience with CI/CD and GitOps technologies such as:
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD
• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• Argo CD
• Flux
• Strong understanding of container registries, artifact repositories, secrets management, and software-supply-chain security.
• Experience designing DevOps architecture for on-premises, hybrid-cloud, or private-cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms.
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, certificates, identity, and security.
• Experience with AWS DevOps and infrastructure services and the ability to map AWS-native capabilities to portable alternatives.
• Experience developing reusable automation frameworks and enterprise engineering standards.
• Strong architecture-documentation and stakeholder-communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with OpenShift, VMware, Nutanix, Rancher, or bare-metal Kubernetes environments.
• Experience migrating from AWS-native DevOps tooling to cloud-neutral or on-premises platforms.
• Experience with enterprise platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
• Experience with SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, Harbor, Nexus, Artifactory, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting industrial, IoT, building-management, or edge-computing platforms.
• Relevant Kubernetes, DevOps, AWS, Red Hat, or HashiCorp certifications.

Key Skills

DevOps Architecture | Platform Engineering | Kubernetes | CI/CD | GitOps | Terraform | Infrastructure as Code | Configuration Management | AWS | On-Premises | Private Cloud | DevSecOps | Observability | Automation | Release Engineering | Reference Architecture