SENIOR LEAD KUBERNETES & DEVSECOPS ENGINEER

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Kubernetes & Container Platforms (Primary Skill)

Kubernetes Administration & Operations

AWS EKS

Azure AKS

Helm Charts

Kubernetes Networking

Ingress Controllers

Service Discovery

RBAC & Security Policies

Network Policies

HPA/VPA Autoscaling

Multi-Cluster Management

Cluster Upgrades & Maintenance

Performance Optimization

Production Troubleshooting

DevSecOps & Automation

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD Pipeline Design & Governance

SAST / DAST

Container Security Scanning

Release Automation

Container Registries (ECR / ACR)

Monitoring & Observability

Datadog

Splunk

Cloud Platforms

AWS

EKS

ECR

IAM

EC2

Azure

AKS

ACR

Security & Secrets Management

HashiCorp Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

Azure Key Vault

Certificate Management

Kubernetes Security Hardening

Application Technologies (Secondary Skill)

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices Architecture

REST APIs

GraphQL

Maven

PREFERRED SKILLS

ArgoCD / GitOps

Istio Service Mesh

SonarQube, Fossa, Wiz CLI scans

Nexus / Artifactory

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Platform Engineering

CKA / CKAD Certifications

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Lead Kubernetes & DevSecOps Engineer with strong expertise in Kubernetes Platform Engineering, Cloud Operations, CI/CD Automation, Security, Observability, and Production Support across AWS and Azure environments.

This is primarily a Kubernetes and DevSecOps-focused role. The ideal candidate should have extensive hands-on experience managing enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS and Azure AKS. Knowledge of Java Spring Boot Microservices and GraphQL is required to effectively support cloud-native application teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Design, deploy, manage, and optimize Kubernetes platforms on OnPrem, AWS EKS and Azure AKS.

Own Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Build and maintain enterprise-grade GitLab CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.

Automate infrastructure and deployment processes using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Implement containerization s tandards and deployment strategies including Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling Deployments.

Drive platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.

Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.

Lead production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and platform optimization initiatives.

Implement Kubernetes security controls, RBAC, network policies, secret management, and certificate management.

Support deployment and operations of Java Spring Boot Microservices and GraphQL services.

Mentor engineering teams and promote Platform Engineering and SRE best practices.