Kubernetes Engineer

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗥𝘀 𝟭𝟴𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬 - 𝗥𝘀 𝟮𝟭𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬 (𝗶𝗲 𝗜𝗡𝗥 𝟭𝟴-𝟮𝟭 𝗟𝗣𝗔)

Experience: 7+ yrs

Location: Hyderabad

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced Kubernetes Engineer – Istio Specialist to design, implement, operate, and optimise cloud-native microservices platforms across AWS EKS and Oracle OKE environments.

The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Istio, service mesh, cloud networking, security, automation, GitOps, and observability. The ideal candidate will have proven production experience managing Istio and Kubernetes platforms across complex, multi-cluster or multi-cloud environments.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, manage, and scale Kubernetes clusters across AWS EKS and Oracle OKE.

• Automate Kubernetes cluster provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform, Helm, GitLab, Argo CD, Flux, or similar technologies.

• Implement and maintain GitOps-based approaches for Kubernetes configuration and application deployments.

• Optimise cluster performance, workload scheduling, autoscaling, node pools, resource utilisation, and platform reliability.

• Design, deploy, and manage Istio Service Mesh in production Kubernetes environments.

• Implement Istio across multi-cluster, multi-region, and multi-cloud architectures.

• Configure advanced traffic management including canary releases, blue/green deployments, traffic splitting, retries, timeouts, fault injection, and circuit breaking.

• Implement mTLS, zero-trust networking, authorization policies, and secure service-to-service communication.

• Configure and manage Istio ingress and egress gateways.

• Troubleshoot and optimise Envoy sidecars and proxy configurations.

• Develop and maintain Istio resources including VirtualServices, DestinationRules, Gateways, and AuthorizationPolicies.

• Design and implement Kubernetes networking, service discovery, ingress/egress, network policies, and secure communication patterns.

• Work with AWS and OCI networking components including VPCs, subnets, load balancers, security groups, security lists, and NSGs.

• Integrate service mesh environments with identity and authentication technologies such as OIDC, OAuth2, SPIFFE, and SPIRE.

• Build observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger/Zipkin, AWS CloudWatch, and OCI Monitoring.

• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, alerts, latency, errors, and service reliability metrics.

• Perform root-cause analysis and resolve production issues involving Kubernetes, Istio, networking, routing, connectivity, latency, and service-to-service communication.

• Integrate Kubernetes and Istio configurations with CI/CD and GitOps pipelines.

• Develop automation using Python, Bash, or Go to streamline platform and operational activities.

• Build reusable platform capabilities and self-service solutions that improve developer productivity.

• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Security, Application Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure teams.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 7–9 years of experience in Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes platform engineering and production cluster operations.

• Proven production experience designing, implementing, and managing Istio Service Mesh.

• Strong expertise in AWS EKS and Oracle OKE architecture and operations.

• Deep understanding of Envoy Proxy, service mesh architecture, and microservices communication patterns.

• Strong experience with Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, GitOps, and YAML-based configuration management.

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes and cloud networking, including VPC, CNI, DNS, service discovery, ingress/egress, network policies, and load balancers.

• Hands-on experience implementing mTLS, zero-trust architecture, authentication, authorisation, and security policies.

• Strong knowledge of observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger/Zipkin, CloudWatch, or OCI Monitoring.

• Good scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or Go.

• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities across Kubernetes, Istio, networking, and cloud infrastructure.

• Experience supporting multi-cluster, multi-region, or multi-cloud service mesh environments is an advantage.

• Knowledge of AWS App Mesh or OCI Service Mesh is a plus.

• Familiarity with SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identity frameworks is preferred.

• Experience with container and Kubernetes security tools such as Falco, Trivy, Aqua Security, or Prisma Cloud is an advantage.

• Experience building platform engineering and developer self-service capabilities is preferred.

• Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or OCI Architectare advantageous.

• Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, and production-support skills with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced engineering environment.