DevOps Engineer

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS and/or Google GKE. This role will focus on platform reliability, automation, developer experience, infrastructure scalability, security, and operational excellence. You will be responsible for building cloud-native platform capabilities, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enhancing CI/CD processes, driving platform observability, and enabling modern developer platforms through tools such as Backstage.
This is a Hybrid position located at our Bangalore, India development center. You will be required to be on-site 2 to 3 days per week. When you are not working on-site, you will be working from your home office. We are only considering candidates within a commutable distance to our Bangalore office and are not offering relocation assistance at this time.
Position Details

About the role:

• You will design, implement, and operate large-scale Kubernetes platforms (EKS/GKE), including multi-region deployments that ensure high availability, scalability, and resilience.
• You will manage the end-to-end Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• You will build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Harness to improve deployment speed, reliability, and automation.
• You will develop and operate cloud-native platform capabilities using technologies such as Karpenter, Cilium, Istio/Envoy, and IRSA/Pod Identity, while building reusable Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code modules.
• You will analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize application code and platform integrations by identifying root causes, debugging complex issues, reviewing architecture and implementation patterns, and recommending or implementing code fixes across cloud-native environments. You will partner with development teams to improve code quality, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• You will drive developer platform initiatives through Backstage adoption, self-service capabilities, platform automation, and AI-driven operational insights where applicable.
• You will strengthen platform security, observability, and reliability by implementing DevSecOps practices, monitoring, logging, tracing, SLIs/SLOs, and platform health metrics.
• You will collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams to lead incident response, root cause analysis, continuous improvement initiatives, and enhancements to developer experience and operational efficiency.

About you:

• You should have 4-6 years of experience in DevOps and Platform Engineering, with strong infrastructure knowledge and hands-on experience managing production-scale Kubernetes environments on AWS EKS and/or Google GKE.
• You should possess strong expertise in Kubernetes, including networking, RBAC, autoscaling, cluster operations, workload management, and supporting mission-critical, highly available cloud platforms.
• You should be proficient in Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Harness.
• You should have strong programming and automation skills in Golang and/or Python, along with hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies such as Karpenter, Cilium, Istio, Envoy, and IRSA/Pod Identity.
• You should have a solid understanding of DevSecOps principles, container security, software supply chain security, platform governance, and observability practices including monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• You should demonstrate strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams and drive operational excellence.
• You should preferably hold relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications (AWS, GCP, CKA, CKAD) and have exposure to Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), self-service platform capabilities, AI-assisted operations, and multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

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