Lead DevOps Engineer

• *Ciklum** is looking for a **Lead DevOps Engineer** to join our team full\-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

• *About the role:**

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross\-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

• *Responsibilities:**

• Set up dev, test and prod environments in the client’s AWS accounts, working with cloud governance on network paths and standards
• Build CI/CD pipelines for the gateway, adapters and supporting services
• Configure secrets management, service accounts and credential rotation
• Implement logging, tracing and observability baselines with correlation IDs
• Deploy the API gateway (AWS API Gateway or Kong) using vendor\-neutral policies
• Produce the deployment view, environment and connectivity matrix, and credentials request
• Build monitoring, alerting, runbooks, rollback plans and the operational handover pack
• Support production releases through change control and hypercare

• *Requirements:**

• 4\+ years in DevOps or platform engineering on AWS
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar)
• Experience with AWS API Gateway or Kong, Lambda or containers (ECS/EKS), and VPC networking
• Secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager or Vault) and IAM best practice
• Observability tooling such as CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry or Datadog
• Experience writing runbooks and handing over to client operations teams
• Comfortable working within enterprise change control and cloud governance
• Nice to have: AWS certification, or experience supporting conversational AI or contact centre platforms

• *What’s in it for you?**

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open\-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large\-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company\-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands\-on experience with cutting\-edge technologies
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company\-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial \& legal consultations

• *About us:**

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting\-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game\-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

• *Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!**

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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• *Required Skills**
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• AWS
• Kore.ai

• *Job Info**
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• Job Identification 5053
• Job Category DevOps/IT Infrastructure
• Posting Date 10/30/2026, 07:37 AM
• Locations Chennai (Hybrid)