DevOps/SRE Engineer

Epam Systems; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Epam Systems in Chennai is seeking a hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our cloud infrastructure team. You will own design and implementation of scalable, secure systems, and collaborate with development, security, and platform teams to raise availability.

You bring 4+ years in SRE/DevOps or cloud infra, deep AWS expertise, IaC with Terraform, and strong automation skills in CI/CD, containers, and monitoring.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives and platform-wide automation projects.
• Collaborate with developers, security, and operations to ensure high availability and DR readiness.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Networking

IAM

Leadership

Observability

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Datadog

New Relic

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Terraform

Job description

• Experience: 4+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
• Deep AWS expertise (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar).
• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS).
• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Strong scripting or programming background (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Sound understanding of networking, security, and identity/access management in the cloud.
• Experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for critical workloads.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams.

Desired Skills

• AWS or other Cloud Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.).
• Experience with AIOps, Serverless Architectures, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cost optimization frameworks.
• Experience with SaaS monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic, Sumo Logic, PagerDuty).
• Exposure to Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional reliability initiatives or platform-wide automation projects.