Senior DevOps, DBA engineer

Overview

Senior DevOps and DBA engineer role responsible for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, database administration and high availability and disaster recovery for Tekion's cloud-native automotive platform.

What you'll do

• Own and improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation workflows.
• Design, deploy, and operate AWS-based cloud infrastructure for high availability, scalability, and security.
• Build and support multi-AZ / multi-region architectures for critical workloads, including failover and resiliency patterns.
• Manage and administer databases, including installation and upgrades, patching and hardening, backup/restore operations, schema/data migrations, storage expansion and capacity planning, and performance tuning and query optimization.
• Define, implement, and regularly validate backup and disaster recovery strategies, including RTO/RPO targets, restore testing, and DR runbooks.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and platform teams to improve system reliability, automation, and operational maturity.
• Implement strong security and access controls, including IAM/RBAC, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and audit logging.
• Build and enhance observability platforms using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, and distributed logging/monitoring solutions.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements for production and business-critical systems.
• Optimize cloud spend through rightsizing, storage optimization, and cost visibility tooling such as AWS Cost Explorer.
• Support infrastructure and operational needs for data and AI platforms, including reliable environments for data pipelines, analytics workloads, model-serving platforms, or AI-enabled applications.
• Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, runbooks, and platform best practices.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, and/or DBA roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including services related to compute, networking, IAM, storage, monitoring, backup, and security.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong experience in database administration, including backup/recovery, replication, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Experience designing and operating high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including multi-region deployment patterns, failover testing, and RTO/RPO planning.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VPCs, routing, ingress/egress, load balancing, DNS, VPN/private connectivity, and WAF.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response in cloud-native environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, including IAM, RBAC, encryption, key management, auditability, and compliance controls.
• Experience supporting data platforms such as relational databases, NoSQL systems, streaming platforms, or search/analytics platforms.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Data/AI infrastructure such as ETL/data pipelines, data lakes/warehouses, model deployment environments, vector/search systems, or AI application support is highly preferred.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Database Specialty.
• Experience with multi-region AWS architecture for production platforms.
• Experience with backup automation, DR drills, and restore validation.
• Exposure to platforms such as OpenSearch, Kafka/MSK, Redis/MemoryDB, MongoDB/DocumentDB, RDS/Aurora, or similar systems.
• Familiarity with AI/ML platform operations, MLOps tooling, or infrastructure supporting data science and AI workloads.

Details

• Location: Chennai Regional Office.