Devops Engineer

Nxtwave Disruptive Technologies(Hiring for a client); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Nxtwave Disruptive Technologies is hiring for a client in Bengaluru to architect and manage air-gapped Kubernetes infrastructure and offline CI/CD pipelines.

You will migrate VM-based setups to containerized platforms, implement monitoring and security hardening, and automate provisioning with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go, and Bash. The role demands hands-on experience with on-prem deployments and strong cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting air-gapped on-prem Kubernetes environments.
• Strong background in offline CI/CD and software supply chains.
• Proficient Linux system administration with security hardening.

Responsibilities

• Architect air-gapped/on-prem Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build and maintain offline CI/CD and software supply chains.
• Manage bare-metal provisioning using PXE and automation tools.
• Migrate VM-based infrastructure to containerized platforms.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and centralized alerting.
• Perform RHEL/Ubuntu security hardening and compliance.
• Manage offline patching and secure software transfers.
• Automate infrastructure using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go, and Bash.
• Mentor teams on air-gapped infrastructure and best practices.

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

AWX/Tower

Jenkins

GitLab

ArgoCD

Flux

Packer

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Harbor

Helm

containerd

PXE

Job description

• Virtualization & Bare Metal: VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSX-T, Proxmox, KVM, PXE boot, IPMI/iDRAC
• Configuration & IaC: Ansible, AWX/Tower, Terraform, Packer, Puppet
• CI/CD & GitOps: Self-hosted GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux, Nexus, Artifactory
• Networking: BGP, OSPF, VLAN, VXLAN, Calico, Cilium, MetalLB, HAProxy, F5, BIND/CoreDNS
• Observability: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, ELK, Loki, Jaeger
• Security: DISA STIG, NIST, ISO 27001, SELinux, AppArmor, HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Cosign, PKI
• Kubernetes & Containers: Kubernetes, RKE2, OpenShift, Docker, containerd, Helm, Harbor
• Scripting & Automation: Python, Go, Bash, Linux, systemd, cgroups
• Air-Gapped Environments: Offline deployments, local registries, artifact repositories, offline patching, vulnerability scanning, software supply chain management

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and manage air-gapped/on-premises Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build and maintain offline CI/CD and software supply chains.
• Manage bare-metal provisioning using PXE and automation tools.
• Migrate VM-based infrastructure to containerized platforms.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and centralized alerting.
• Perform RHEL/Ubuntu security hardening and compliance.
• Manage offline patching and secure software transfers.
• Automate infrastructure using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go, and Bash.
• Mentor teams on air-gapped infrastructure and operational best practices.