Senior Devops Engineer with AI

Role: Senior Devops Engineer + AI

Experience: 8+ Yrs in Devops & 3 yrs in AI (GenAI/AgenticAI)

Location: Chennai/Pune

Mode of Work: WFO - 4 days in a week

Notice: Immediate to Max 15 days only

Interview type: L1-Virtual / L2-F2F discussion

Interested & Eligible candidates can send their resume to rajkumar.jayapathy@theoptimum.net

Job Summary : We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in cloud-native technologies, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and AI-assisted engineering practices. The ideal candidate will play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing modern DevOps platforms while enabling AI-driven software delivery, platform automation, and developer productivity.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
• Drive AI-first engineering practices by leveraging GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Copilot Enterprise, and other Generative AI tools.
• Strong experience in cloud-native application deployment and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD implementation.
• Manage deployments across AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Support Kafka-based event-driven architectures and real-time workloads
• Experience supporting AI/ML deployment pipelines and AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, deployments, networking, security, and production environments.
• Experience in production support, release management, and incident response.