Role: Senior Operations Engineer
Team: Scientific Computing Platform
Location: Bangalore or Chennai (1-2 day/week onsite if near office)
Duration: ASAP – End of 2026
What You'll Do
- Handle and fix system issues, find root causes, and prevent them from happening again
- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerts to keep systems reliable and performant
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to improve operations
- Troubleshoot complex problems across applications, infrastructure, and user issues
- Manage tools like Ansible, Vault, Consul, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Automate deployments using GitOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Support and mentor junior engineers
Must-Have Skills
- Strong experience with Linux systems (admin, troubleshooting)
- Knowledge of automation and Bash scripting
- Experience working in DevOps and Agile environments
- Good communication skills (can explain tech to non-tech users)
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with HPC (High-Performance Computing) applications
- Knowledge of SLURM workload manager
- Experience with OpenStack
- Infrastructure as Code tools (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Cloud experience (especially AWS)
- Familiarity with tools like EasyBuild or Spack
- Experience with containers (Docker, Singularity, enroot)
- Knowledge of HPC testing/benchmark tools like Reframe
