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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