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Job Title: DevOps Specialist
Job Type: Full-Time | Location: Chennai
Experience Level: Sr. Associate (5-6 years)
Company Overview:
Yavar is a data intelligence platform company offering industry-specific private AI applications. Our platforms help enterprises unlock intelligence using AI, deep-tech orchestration, and secure cloud infrastructure. We're looking for a DevOps Specialist to build and scale our multi-cloud (GCP & Azure) environments with security-first automation.
Who Should Apply:
We seek engineers with 5-6 years of DevOps experience, including 1-2 years designing and managing cloud native architectures. If you have hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP/ Azure), containerization (dockers / Kubernetes), infrastructure as a code (terraform, ansible) and designed secure CI/CD pipelines, enforced zero-trust access, and optimized cloud costswhile thriving in fast-paced AI/ML environmentsthis role is for you. Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, observability stacks, and modern identity and access protocols is a strong plus.
Role Summary:
As a DevOps Specialist at Yavar, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining the backbone of our cloud-native infrastructure. You'll be responsible for designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud deployments, ensuring high availability and security, and supporting developer productivity through automation. You'll also oversee internal IT operations, including employee onboarding/offboarding, identity management, and system access controls. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure reliability, DevOps innovation, and organizational IT administration
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and automated code deployments across environments.
- Manage multi-cloud architectures (GCP/AWS/Azure) focusing on scalability, cost-efficiency and high availability.
- Implement and manage infrastructure as a code (IaaC) using toolis like Terraform/ Cloud Formation, ensuring compliance with SOC2/GDPR.
- Setup and manage containerized environments using Kubernetes, including helm-based deployments.
- Ensure system reliability, performance monitoring, altering and optimizing costs with finops practices using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or datadog.
- Implement zero-trust IAM (GCP IAM Roles, Azure RBAC/PIM) and SSO/MFA (Azure AD, Google Workspace).
- Automate CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) with embedded security scans.
- Manage secrets (Hashicorp Vault, GCP Secret Manager) and encryption (KMS, Cloud HSM).
- Collaborate with AI teams to deploy RAG pipelines and vector databases at scale.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging tools, frameworks, and practices to improve DevOps productivity and operational resilience.
- Participate in architecture reviews, performance benchmarking, deployment automation and disaster recovery planning.
- Own and manage internal IT administration including employee onboarding, ID provisioning, access controls and system audits.
Must-Have Qualifications:
- 5-6 years in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, and system administration roles.
- 1-2 years experience in managing cloud environments (AWS, GCP & Azure).
- Proficiency in:
- Infra-as-Code: Terraform, ARM/Bicep
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/AKS), Helm
- Security: IAM, VPC-SC, NSGs, SIEM tools
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Github scripting and automation scripting (Bash, python, or shell).
- Experience managing IT administration workflows, employee RBAC and endpoint management.
- Bachelor's degree or Masters in Computer Science or related field.
Key Attributes:
- Security-first mindset with expertise in least-privilege access.
- Pragmatic problem solver who debugs production incidents via SRE practices.
- Clear communicator who can explain infrastructure decisions and operational trade-offs to cross functional teams.
- Collaborative spirit working with AI/ML and product teams.
- Continuous learner, staying current with emerging tools, best practices and zero-trust frameworks.
Why Join Us
- Build secure, scalable infrastructure for cutting-edge AI products.
- Work with top-tier cloud tech and open-source tools.
- Shape privacy-preserving architectures for enterprise AI.
- Competitive salary + certification sponsorships.
How to Apply: If you're passionate about secure cloud automation, send your resume (with Terraform/GitHub samples) to [Confidential Information].
