Senior DevOps / Linux Administrator

Job Title: Senior DevOps / Linux Administrator

Location: Bangalore
Experience: 7+ Years
 

Role Summary

We are hiring a Senior DevOps / Linux Administrator with strong experience in Linux, automation, cloud (AWS), CI/CD, troubleshooting, and platform reliability. The role requires deep technical ownership, strong problem‑solving skills, and the ability to support high‑availability systems used for fraud detection.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

• Design, build, automate, and operate highly available and secure platforms.
• Ensure full observability through monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerting.
• Engineer systems to fail gracefully without customer impact.
• Manage Linux infrastructure across physical servers and AWS cloud environments.

DevOps, CI/CD & Automation

• Automate deployments and infrastructure using Shell, Python, Ansible.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, Artifactory, GitHub.
• Enable fast, reliable deployments and seamless environment stability.

Cloud Engineering (AWS)

• Implement and manage AWS services such as:
  • EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB, Route 53, Security Groups
• Optimize cloud performance, security, and cost.
• Troubleshoot hybrid infra issues across on‑prem and AWS.

Incident, Problem & Performance Management

• Lead operational incident triage and blameless post‑mortems.
• Drive permanent fixes and reduce operational toil.
• Troubleshoot across application, infrastructure, cloud, and network layers.

Monitoring & Observability

• Configure and optimize monitoring using Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch, Prometheus, etc.
• Build dashboards and alerts to support proactive detection.

Networking & Security

• Expert troubleshooting in:
  • TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers
  • TLS/SSL certificates
  • Firewalls, proxies, routing
• Ensure compliance with organizational security standards.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Lead technical calls and war rooms when needed.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing.
• Partner with developers, security, and operations teams to deliver platform improvements.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Linux Administration, SRE, or Platform Engineering
• Strong Linux/Unix skills (Red Hat Administrator level)
• Advanced scripting: Shell, Python (Java optional)
• DevOps tools: Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins/TeamCity, Artifactory
• Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch
• AWS experience:
  • EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, ELB/ALB/NLB
  • CloudWatch, Route 53, Security Groups
  • Troubleshooting AWS‑based applications and infra
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and infrastructure fundamentals
• Experience with Python/Java‑based applications (support/troubleshooting)
• Integration troubleshooting (upstream, downstream, in‑stream)
• ETL tools (Ab Initio or similar) — nice to have

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, or related engineering fields.

S​YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
 

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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