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.
CI/CD Pipeline Design & Implementation
- Architect, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Configure workflows for build, test, security scanning, and deployment across multiple environments.
- Optimize pipeline performance, reliability, and cost.
- Architect, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
- Automate environment provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments.
- Develop reusable automation scripts (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell) for operational tasks.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
Cloud & Container Platforms
- Manage and support workloads on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Work with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or EKS/AKS.
- Implement scalable and highly available infrastructure solutions.
- Manage and support workloads on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Monitoring, Logging & Reliability
- Configure monitoring and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent.
- Implement centralized logging using ELK/EFK, Splunk, or cloud-native solutions.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
- Configure monitoring and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent.
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.
- Integrate security tools (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning) into GitHub Actions workflows.
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.
- Work closely with development teams to enable continuous integration and delivery best practices.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / Build & Release Engineering.
- Strong expertise in GitHub Actions:
- Creating and managing workflows, reusable workflows, and actions.
- Experience with matrix builds, environment-specific pipelines, and multi-stage deployments.
- Creating and managing workflows, reusable workflows, and actions.
- Solid understanding of CI/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.
- Cloud platforms: AWS/Azure/GCP (any one or more).
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of Linux-based systems administration and networking basics.
- Experience integrating testing frameworks, code quality tools, and security scanners into pipelines.
- Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools and practices.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Skills Required
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or Build and Release Engineering
- Strong expertise creating and managing GitHub Actions workflows, reusable workflows, and actions
- Experience with matrix builds, environment-specific pipelines, and multi-stage deployments
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts, branching strategies, and release management
- Practical experience with at least one cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Practical experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent IaC tools
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or equivalent
- Knowledge of Linux system administration and networking basics
- Experience integrating testing frameworks, code quality tools, and security scanners into pipelines
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools and practices
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps
- Exposure to microservices architectures and blue-green, canary, or rolling deployment strategies
- Knowledge of Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments
What We Do
Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel
