DevOps Team Lead

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. The Release Engineering team supports about 40 developers. We need someone to make deploys faster and less scary. Chennai Labs is hiring for the DevOps Team Lead role to own our build pipelines, cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling. Remote, open to candidates across India. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Key responsibilities:

• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM
• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps
• Track and reduce cloud spend with tagging, budgets and rightsizing
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection
• Automate server configuration with Ansible
• Set up monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch

What we're looking for:

• 7+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Scripting in Bash and Python
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes

What we offer:

Rate: ₹21.5-26 LPA

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave

About us:

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and two nearshore delivery centres. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chennai Labs.