DevOps Specialist

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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 costs—while thriving in fast-paced AI/ML environments—this 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].