Senior DevOps Engineer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
May 02, 2025
May 02, 2026
Onsite
Full-Time
3 Years
Job Description

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior DevOps Engineer with 8 to 14 years of industry experience to join our growing technology team. This is a critical role that blends software development, operations, and infrastructure management, ensuring smooth, reliable, and scalable deployment pipelines and infrastructure automation across our organization.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing robust CI/CD pipelines, automating system processes using Python and Java, and leveraging cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS to support our software engineering teams. You will also play a key role in improving observability, monitoring, and logging frameworks using tools like Elastic Stack, with a focus on parsing and analyzing log data via regex and Grok.

This role requires a strong foundation in DevOps practices, scripting, cloud technologies, and configuration management tools. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, has a proactive mindset, and is committed to delivering high-quality and efficient DevOps solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to streamline the software delivery lifecycle, enabling faster, automated, and more reliable deployments.
  • Create and maintain robust automation scripts using Python and Java to simplify infrastructure and deployment processes.
  • Utilize regular expressions (regex) and Grok patterns for parsing, filtering, and extracting structured data from log files to aid in debugging, monitoring, and analytics.
  • Architect and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-effective AWS cloud infrastructure to support development and production environments.
  • Collaborate closely with software development teams, QA, and operations to understand requirements and ensure seamless integration of code into production environments.
  • Contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices and version-controlled configuration using Ansible, Puppet, or other similar tools (a plus).
  • Implement and support centralized logging and monitoring solutions using tools such as the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) (a plus).
  • Stay up to date with emerging DevOps trends, tools, and technologies and advocate for best practices and process improvements across teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
  • A minimum of 3 years of focused experience in a DevOps role, with overall 8+ years of experience in IT or software engineering.
  • Expertise in writing and optimizing regex and Grok patterns for log parsing and data extraction.
  • Hands-on experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills in Python and Java, you should be comfortable building automation tools and utilities to solve real-world problems.
  • Deep understanding of AWS services and architecture, including but not limited to EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS, and CloudWatch.
  • Experience working with source code management tools such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab.
  • Familiarity with Ansible or Puppet for configuration management and infrastructure automation (nice to have).
  • Exposure to Elastic Stack or similar logging and monitoring tools is a plus.
  • Knowledge of containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes) is beneficial but not mandatory.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills with a team-oriented attitude.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize multiple tasks, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

What We Offer

  • A dynamic and collaborative work environment.
  • Opportunity to work with modern DevOps tools and cloud technologies.
  • Access to learning resources and continuous professional development.
  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Flexible work arrangements and a strong focus on work-life balance.

If you're a driven and innovative DevOps engineer looking to make an impact by automating and optimizing software delivery pipelines and cloud infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you!