Devops Engineer Kochi (India)

DevOps Engineer Role Summary We are looking for a DevOps engineer to build and operate cloud-native foundations and to partner closely with AI and application engineers. This is a hands-on role spanning DevOps fundamentals Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code and AI/ML infrastructure such as GPU-backed model serving and the data services that AI applications depend on. You will help stand up pragmatic, right-sized platform foundations and act as the infrastructure partner to application engineers deploying and scaling their services reliably, keeping the developer loop quick, and building security and observability in from the start. We are looking for a candidate with a solid academic record and solid computer-science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving) alongside hands-on platform experience. Key Responsibilities DevOps Foundations Bootstrap and operate Kubernetes (AKS) plus the surrounding cloud-native foundations: container registry, secrets management, identity, and monitoring. Own the build-and-deploy path end to end containerisation (Docker/BuildKit), image registry, CI/CD (GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines), and GitOps (Argo CD or Flux). Codify infrastructure with Terraform and/or Bicep and Helm so settings are reproducible and reviewable. AI Infrastructure & Data Plane Package and deploy application and AI/agent services, including the runtime, secrets, and configuration they require. Provision and operate the data plane: managed PostgreSQL, Redis, a vector store, a graph store, object storage, and a queue / event bus. Stand up self-hosted inference e.g. vLLM on a GPU node pool alongside hosted-model connectors; use KEDA/HPA to scale stateless pods (down to zero) and bin-pack GPU efficiently. Isolation, Security & Reliability Implement tenant/workload isolation: namespaces, deny-by-default NetworkPolicy, ResourceQuota/LimitRange, and scoped secrets. Manage secrets and identity w .