Platform DevOps Engineer (Linux/Kubernetes/OpenStack)

8 years

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Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

Multiple roles at all levels:

Sr. DevOps Engineer - 8+ years

DevOps Engineer - 5+ years

Jr. DevOps Engineer - 3+ years


Role overview

delegate and monitor


Key responsibilities


Ownership & leadership

  • Perform tasks independently; 

    delegate, track, and close

     team assignments in a time-bound manner with status reporting.
  • Plan and define scope; activity sequencing; resource planning; 

    schedule, time and cost estimation

    ; budget inputs; stakeholder documentation.
  • Drive Agile ceremonies and 

    Sprint/Release lifecycle

     (Scrum/Kanban).


Linux & virtualisation

  • Administer 

    Linux kernel–based OS (RHEL/CentOS)

    ; tune, harden and patch.
  • Manage 

    Red Hat

     and 

    VMware

     virtualisation layers (provisioning, HA/DR, performance).
  • Storage & distribution

  • Provision and manage 

    block/object/file

     storage; implement storage distribution strategies and quotas.


Databases (SQL & NoSQL)

  • Operate and tune databases; 

    performance tuning, clustering, slow-query analysis, query optimisation

    , export/import and backup/restore.


Security & compliance

  • Implement infrastructure security at 

    network, OS, container and application

     layers.
  • Perform 

    vulnerability assessment remediation

    , apply OS/app patches, and 

    harden servers

     to baseline standards.


Web/CMS environments

  • Configure and deploy 

    Drupal, WordPress

     and similar CMS across 

    Dev/Staging/Prod

    , including pipelines, config management and rollbacks.


Open-source enablement

  • Maintain existing open-source tools and 

    evaluate/introduce new

     OSS where appropriate to improve reliability, cost and developer experience.


Containers & orchestration (Mandatory)

  • Administer 

    Docker

     estates; design and run workloads on 

    Kubernetes

     (install/upgrade, multi-node operations, ingress, storage, RBAC, network policies).


Documentation

  • Produce clear documentation for 

    architecture changes, installations, runbooks

    , and operational procedures.


Automation & scripting

  • Write 

    shell scripts

     (and related tooling) to automate routine tasks, checks and remediation.


Observability & performance

  • Regularly 

    monitor and analyse system logs and metrics

     (CPU, memory, disk, I/O, network).
  • Identify bottlenecks and 

    fine-tune

     systems for optimal performance; set alerts and SLOs.


Cloud & platforms

  • Operational knowledge of 

    OpenStack

    Kubernetes

     and 

    Ceph

     clusters (setup, scaling, upgrades, failure handling).


Quality & benchmarking

  • Author and execute 

    test cases

     for functional, performance and benchmark testing of existing applications and platforms.


Required skills & experience

  • Deep Linux

     administration (RHEL/CentOS), kernel-level understanding, systemd, packaging, SELinux.
  • Virtualisation

     on Red Hat/VMware (resource pools, templates, HA/DRS, vSwitch/vDS).
  • Storage

     provisioning (LVM, iSCSI/NFS, object stores) and capacity planning.
  • Databases:

     at least one 

    SQL

     (MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server) and one 

    NoSQL

    (MongoDB/Redis/Cassandra) with hands-on tuning and clustering.
  • Security:

     network segmentation, firewalls, TLS/PKI, CIS hardening, patching, VA/PT fix-through.
  • Containers:

     Docker image hygiene, registries, 

    Kubernetes

     operations (helm/kustomize, ingress, CNI/CNI-policies, CSI storage).
  • OpenStack & Ceph:

     day-2 operations, scaling and troubleshooting.
  • CMS:

     deployment and operations for 

    Drupal/WordPress

     across environments.
  • Scripting:

     

    Bash

     (and optionally Python) for automation.
  • Observability:

     metrics/logging/tracing; capacity & performance analysis.
  • Ways of working:

     Agile/Scrum/Kanban, sprint planning, release management; strong written and verbal communication.


Qualifications & certifications

  • B.Tech/B.E./MCA/M.Sc

     or equivalent.
  • Highly Preferred: RHCSA/RHCE

    CKA/CKAD

    VMware VCP

    OpenStack

    Ceph

    MySQL/PostgreSQL

     admin, 

    AWS/Azure

     admin, 

    Security

     (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CISSP associate).


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