Senior Devops Engineer

Quantum Apptech; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Apptech in Chennai is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE to own CI/CD, cloud infra, and reliability practices, mentoring juniors and advancing best practices across teams.

You will design and operate scalable pipelines, manage multi-cloud infrastructure as code, and drive security, monitoring, and cost optimization. This role enables engineering teams to ship faster and more safely, with a focus on reliability and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps/SRE/infrastructure roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Run and optimize Kubernetes clusters and container workloads (Docker, Helm, EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Drive SRE practices: SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, on-call rotation.
• Embed security into pipelines (DevSecOps): secrets management, vulnerability scanning, IAM, compliance.
• Optimize cloud costs, performance, and availability.
• Mentor team members and review infrastructure designs.

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

Cloud proficiency (AWS)

Kubernetes & Docker

Terraform

Scripting (Bash/Python/Go)

Linux & Networking

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Flux

CloudFormation

Job description

About the Role

You'll own and evolve our CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and reliability practices, enabling engineering teams to ship faster and safer. You'll also mentor junior engineers and drive DevOps best practices across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps)
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
• Run and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads (Docker, Helm, EKS/AKS/GKE)
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
• Drive SRE practices: SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, on-call rotation
• Embed security into pipelines (DevSecOps): secrets management, vulnerability scanning, IAM, compliance
• Optimize cloud costs, performance, and availability
• Mentor team members and review infrastructure designs

Required Skills

• 10+ years in DevOps/SRE/infrastructure roles
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud (AWS preferred)
• Expert in Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
• Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python, or Go)
• Solid Linux administration and networking fundamentals
• Experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux)