DevOps Engineer Jobs in Chennai Software Product Company

📋 Job Description

Jobzi is sourcing qualified candidates for DevOps Engineer positions in Chennai's private Software Product Company sector. This is a full-time opportunity with a reputed Software and Technology employer in Chennai offering competitive salary, structured growth, and a professional work environment. Tamil communication skills are preferred alongside English for professional and business interaction in Chennai.

📌 Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment workflows for the company's product engineering teams.
• Manage containerised application deployments using Docker and Kubernetes across development, staging, and production environments.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or cloud-native observability tools.
• Collaborate with software engineers to design deployment architectures that support zero-downtime releases and blue-green or canary deployment strategies.
• Manage secrets, access control, and security hardening for cloud environments, following the principle of least privilege.
• Respond to infrastructure incidents, conduct post-mortems, and implement preventive measures to improve system reliability.

🎓 Qualifications and Requirements

• B.E. or B.Tech in Computer Science, IT, or ECE with one to five years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Hands-on proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes including writing Dockerfiles, Helm charts, and managing cluster deployments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform: AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP, including compute, storage, and networking services.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform for provisioning and Ansible for configuration management.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration and shell scripting using Bash; Python scripting is an added advantage.
• Understanding of monitoring and observability principles with hands-on experience in Prometheus/Grafana or an equivalent stack.
• Good Tamil and English communication skills for team coordination and client interaction in Chennai.

✅ Required Skills