Infrastructure Engineering Engineer III

TekWissen; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

TekWissen is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Engineer III in Chennai. You will design, build, and operate enterprise servers across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments with a strong emphasis on private cloud and container orchestration using Kubernetes/OpenShift.

You will architect automation, IaC, and observability stacks, integrating AI/ML pipelines as needed, while mentoring teams and advancing GitOps practices in a multi-repo setup.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development
• Engineer III level with practical coding in at least 1 language and exposure to 2 languages
• Bachelor's Degree required
• Experience in OCP engineering, development, SRE, and DevSecOps
• Strong private cloud and container architecture knowledge: Kubernetes/OpenShift, Operators, ODF

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and maintain on-prem, cloud, or hybrid enterprise servers and infra
• Develop and maintain complex infrastructure solutions for internal needs
• Configure secure virtualized environments, VMs, and high-speed storage
• Create and refine automation scripts and IaC across Go, Python, Ansible
• Build observability stacks and automate recovery, scaling, and DR
• Mentor teams, promote coding standards and GitOps workflows
• Lead private cloud projects with OpenShift/Kubernetes-based platforms

Skills

Kubernetes

OCP

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Go

Automation

DevOps mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world.The below client is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place one that benefits lives, communities and the planet

Job Title: Infrastructure Engineering Engineer III

Location: Chennai

Work Type: Hybrid (4 Days work From Office)

Position Description:

• Employees part of this function are responsible for building and operating IT hardware and software resources in on-prem, cloud or hybrid scenarios in support of internal customer needs.
• They are responsible for a wide variety of activities that operationalize cross functional teams such as capacity planning and resource optimization solutions for one-off and long-term workloads, planning, configuring and maintaining servers (including mainframes), creating virtualized environments, providing analytics services, installing and maintaining specialized tools, etc

Key Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design, operation, and maintenance of enterprise servers, including specialty mainframe systems like IBM/LPARS, high performance super computing systems, and general-purpose hybrid and cloud systems, for optimal end-user business operations.
• Research, design, implement and maintain complex infrastructure solutions for internal customer needs such as specialty software, data warehouses, identity access management, event frameworks, containerization and on demand scaling, etc.
• Design and configure secure virtualized environments aligned with enterprise architecture blueprints consisting of virtual machines, virtual networks, high speed and distributed storage systems (SAN, HDFS, SSD, etc.)
• Utilize existing tools or assist in engineering custom monitoring solutions to ensure systems are configured correctly, run efficiently and remain secure against potential threats.
• Monitor and review resources like CPU, memory, storage, and network traffic to ensure effective utilization aligned with expected parameters and to safeguard against runaway costs. Resolve bottlenecks and plan for future capacity needs based on resource usage trends. Advise enterprise architecture teams on usage trends to incorporate into future blueprints.

Skills Required:

• Developing Automation Scripts, Kubernetes, OCP, Terraform, Ansible, automation , python, Go Lang, good dev experience, developer mindset

Skills Preferred:

• Python

Experience Required:

• Engineer III Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.
• 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

Education Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information :

• What You’ll Do (The Engineering Impact)
• Engineer and architect our OCP solutions: You will design and support on-premise OCP platform, running a combination of containers and OSV, virtual machines as we march towards a private cloud implementation.
• Architect the Private Cloud: Treat our private cloud platform as a software product. You will develop and support custom Kubernetes/OpenShift operators, APIs, and developer tooling to enable seamless, self-service cloud capabilities for application teams.
• Write Advanced Automation & IaC: Write clean, testable, and robust automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Go, Python, and Ansible to drive our private cloud transformation and eliminate manual toil.
• Software-Driven SRE: Bring a software engineering mindset to private cloud reliability. Build and integrate advanced observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, custom K8s operators) and write software to automate recovery, auto-scaling, and disaster recovery.
• Integrate AI/ML Capabilities: Write code and data pipelines that integrate advanced AI/ML platforms (like Vertex AI) directly into our private cloud infrastructure and automation workflows.
• Mentor & Champion Coding Standards: Lead by example in software craftsmanship. Mentor junior and senior developers across Polyrepo/Monorepo setups, container-native design patterns, and modern GitOps workflows.
• Your Engineering Toolkit To excel in this role, you should have 6 to 10 years of experience in OCP engineering, development, SRE, and DevSecOps, with a strong focus on the following:
• Private Cloud & Container Architecture: o Deep expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift internals, including Operators (OLM), MachineConfig, Multus CNI, Trident, CePH and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF). o Experience utilizing OpenShift Virtualization to run diverse workloads.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.