Senior Devops Engineer-AWS & Kubernetes

UST; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

UST in India seeks a hands-on technical leader with strong AWS, CI/CD, and Kubernetes expertise to design, build, and deliver secure, scalable cloud platforms. The role combines cloud architecture, platform engineering, DevOps leadership, and end-to-end delivery ownership.

The successful candidate will guide engineering teams, establish cloud-native best practices, and leverage AI-powered tooling to accelerate platform delivery while maintaining security, governance, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud platform design and delivery experience.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable AWS-based platform architectures.
• Lead infrastructure as code and automated deployment processes.
• Build, optimize, and support cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes.
• Define secure CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure delivery.
• Drive end-to-end platform delivery from discovery to handover.
• Mentor engineering teams on AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Role Description

Job Summary

We are seeking a hands‑on technical leader with strong expertise in AWS, CI/CD, and Kubernetes to design, build, and deliver secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platforms. The role combines cloud architecture, platform engineering, DevOps leadership, and end‑to‑end delivery ownership. The ideal candidate will guide engineering teams, establish cloud‑native best practices, and leverage AI-enabled engineering approaches to accelerate platform delivery while maintaining security, governance, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient AWS-based platform architectures aligned with business and application requirements.
• Lead the development and management of infrastructure as code and automated deployment processes to ensure consistent and repeatable platform delivery.
• Build, optimize, and support cloud‑native platforms using Kubernetes for container orchestration and workload management.
• Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure delivery, including build, test, deployment, rollback, and release automation.
• Drive end‑to‑end platform delivery from discovery, architecture, provisioning, testing, deployment, and operational handover.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform, deployment, and infrastructure issues across cloud and container environments.
• Monitor platform performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency, implementing improvements where required.
• Establish secure cloud foundations, including access controls, environment isolation, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and compliance practices.
• Define and implement operational processes, incident response procedures, recovery strategies, and platform standards.
• Create reusable platform components, templates, and automation frameworks to improve delivery speed and consistency.
• Mentor engineering teams on AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD practices, cloud-native development, and platform operations.
• Utilize AI-powered engineering tools to accelerate automation, infrastructure development, documentation, and troubleshooting while ensuring appropriate governance and review controls.
• Collaborate with application, architecture, security, networking, QA, and customer stakeholders to ensure successful platform delivery.
• Track and improve platform delivery metrics, deployment success rates, reliability indicators, and operational effectiveness.

Skills

AWS, CI/CD, Kubernetes