DevOps Engineer

About Us

Kumaran Systems: Engineering Future-Ready Transformations Since 1992, Kumaran Systems has been helping enterprises bridge the past and the future, reimagining legacy systems and embracing AI-led possibilities. With over 34 years of delivery excellence, we specialise in re-engineering core applications, driving cloud transformation, and building automation-first, GenAI-enabled ecosystems across the Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, and Automotive sectors. We help organisations not just upgrade their systems but reimagine what's possible.

Why Kumaran

We blend engineering discipline with AI innovation, helping clients modernise with confidence, automate with clarity, and scale with purpose. Our global delivery model ensures agility, responsiveness, and seamless collaboration, with clients always at the heart of every engagement. At Kumaran, we don't just solve problems, we engineer future-ready transformations.

Role Summary

A DevOps Engineer with 6 years of experience specializing in GitHub Actions is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable and efficient software delivery. This role collaborates closely with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to automate processes, enhance system reliability, and improve deployment speed and quality.

Key Responsibilities

• CI/CD Pipeline Design & Implementation
• Architect, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines usingGitHub Actions.
• Configure workflows for build, test, security scanning, and deployment across multiple environments.
• Optimize pipeline performance, reliability, and cost.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such asTerraform,CloudFormation, or similar.
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments.
• Develop reusable automation scripts (e.g.,Shell,Python,PowerShell) for operational tasks.
• Cloud & Container Platforms
• Manage and support workloads on cloud platforms such asAWS,Azure, orGCP.
• Work with containerization technologies likeDockerand orchestration platforms likeKubernetesorEKS/AKS.
• Implement scalable and highly available infrastructure solutions.
• Monitoring, Logging & Reliability
• Configure monitoring and alerting using tools such asPrometheus,Grafana,CloudWatch, or equivalent.
• Implement centralized logging usingELK/EFK,Splunk, or cloud-native solutions.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Security & Compliance in CI/CD
• Integrate security tools (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning) into GitHub Actions workflows.
• Manage secrets and credentials securely using GitHub Secrets, Vault, or cloud key management services.
• Ensure CI/CD processes comply with organizational security and governance standards.
• Collaboration & DevOps Culture
• Work closely with development teams to enable continuous integration and delivery best practices.
• Drive adoption of DevOps methodologies, automation, and standardization across projects.
• Document processes, pipelines, and infrastructure for maintainability and knowledge sharing.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of hands-on experience inDevOps / Build & Release Engineering.
• Strong expertise inGitHub Actions:
• Creating and managing workflows, reusable workflows, and actions.
• Experience with matrix builds, environment-specific pipelines, and multi-stage deployments.
• Solid understanding ofCI/CD concepts, branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based), and release management.
• Practical experience with:
• Cloud platforms:AWS/Azure/GCP (any one or more).
• Containers & orchestration:Docker, Kubernetes.
• IaC tools:Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Strong scripting skills inBash,Python, or equivalent.
• Knowledge ofLinux-based systemsadministration and networking basics.
• Experience integratingtesting frameworks,code quality tools, andsecurity scannersinto pipelines.
• Familiarity withmonitoring/loggingtools and practices.

Preferred/Good-to-Have

• Experience with other CI tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps) for migration to GitHub Actions.
• Exposure to microservices architectures and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling).
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).