Senior DevOps Engineer

KSOLVES; Indore District; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech company is looking for a DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of hands-on DevOps experience, strong knowledge of Kubernetes, and proficiency in Linux administration. Responsibilities include deploying applications, configuring CI/CD processes, and ensuring system reliability. This position involves working with cloud platforms and various automation tools, making it ideal for someone with a passion for DevOps best practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on DevOps experience.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and environment management.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for deploying stateful services.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm or similar IaC tools.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for infrastructure and deployment issues.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Manage Linux servers and support developers with best practices.
• Deploy applications on Kubernetes and monitor critical services.
• Ensure system reliability and high availability.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Linux administration

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring tools

Security best practices

Troubleshooting skills

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines across cloud and on-prem environments. The role includes managing Linux servers, deploying applications on Kubernetes, ensuring security compliance, and optimizing distributed system performance. You will configure CI/CD processes, monitor critical services, implement observability, and support developers with DevOps best practices. Responsibilities include troubleshooting infrastructure issues, improving deployment automation, overseeing certificate/security management, and ensuring system reliability and high availability.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and maintain scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines across cloud and on-prem environments
• Manage Linux servers with expertise in system administration, troubleshooting, hardening, and shell scripting
• Deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes with stateful services, persistent volumes, Helm charts, and operators
• Configure CI/CD processes and support developers with DevOps best practices
• Monitor critical services and implement observability solutions
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, deployment failures, networking, and distributed application problems
• Oversee certificate management, security hardening, and system reliability
• Ensure system reliability and high availability standards

Must-Have Skills

• 4+ years of hands‑on DevOps experience
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and environment management
• Hands‑on experience installing, configuring, and optimizing distributed systems across multi‑node environments
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes including deploying stateful services, persistent volumes, Helm charts, operators, and cluster administration
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) including networking, IAM, storage, compute, security, and managed services
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, or Datadog
• Strong understanding of security best practices including certificate‑based authentication, secrets management, encryption, TLS/SSL, RBAC, and cloud security
• Strong troubleshooting skills for infrastructure, deployment failures, networking, and distributed application issues
• Linux experience is mandatory including system administration, troubleshooting, hardening, and shell scripting

Good‑to‑Have Skills

• DevOps experience with Big Data technologies such as NiFi, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Hadoop, Hive, or similar distributed data systems
• Ability to create and maintain detailed documentation for deployments, infrastructure, troubleshooting guides, and SOPs
• Familiarity with certificates, rotation policies, and managing PKI infrastructure
• Working knowledge of cloud‑native tools like Kustomize and Kubernetes Operators
• Understanding of logging, tracing, alerting, and capacity planning in distributed systems
• Familiarity with networking concepts, load balancing, and DNS
• Experience with SRE/DevOps best practices such as reliability engineering, error budgets, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs