DevOps Intern

CloudSEK; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CloudSEK is seeking a DevOps Intern in Bengaluru to join a dynamic team building cloud-native infrastructure. You will work on Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, traffic routing, and observability across multi-cloud environments.

The role emphasizes learning and troubleshooting real-world workloads end-to-end. The ideal candidate has hands-on Kubernetes exposure, familiarity with managed services (EKS/GKE/AKS), and basic scripting skills.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals.
• Exposure to managed Kubernetes services (EKS, GKE, AKS).
• Experience with traffic routing systems such as NGINX Ingress/Gateway.
• Hands-on with Karpenter or node autoscaling basics.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or GitLab CI).
• Knowledge of configuration and secrets management (Vault, External Secrets).
• Basic scripting in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Awareness of multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Willingness to learn and troubleshoot end-to-end workloads.

Responsibilities

• Assist in deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, AKS).
• Manage traffic routing and ingress for Kubernetes workloads.
• Work with Karpenter for node provisioning and autoscaling.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems.
• Build and maintain monitoring and logging stacks.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Automate operational tasks and reduce manual toil.
• Troubleshoot networking, containers, and cloud service issues.
• Collaborate with application and security teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Scripting

Cloud basics

Networking basics

Git/CI tools

Tools

EKS

GKE

AKS

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Vault

Sealed Secrets

External Secrets

Terraform

Job description

We are a bunch of super enthusiastic, passionate, and highly driven people, working to achieve a common goal! We believe that work and the workplace should be joyful and always buzzing with energy!

CloudSEK, one of India’s most trusted Cyber security product companies, is on a mission to build the world’s fastest and most reliable AI technology that identifies and resolves digital threats in real-time. The central proposition is leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to create a quick and reliable analysis and alert system that provides rapid detection across multiple internet sources, precise threat analysis, and prompt resolution with minimal human intervention.

Founded in 2015, headquartered at Singapore, we are proud to say that we’ve grown at a frenetic pace and have been able to achieve some accolades along the way, including:

CloudSEK’s Product Suite:

• CloudSEK XVigil constantly maps a customer’s digital assets, identifies threats and enriches them with cyber intelligence, and then provides workflows to manage and remediate all identified threats including takedown support.
• A powerful Attack Surface Monitoringtool that gives visibility and intelligence on customers’ attack surfaces. CloudSEK's BeVigil uses a combination of Mobile, Web, Network and Encryption Scanners to map and protect known and unknown assets.
• CloudSEK’s Contextual AI SVigil identifies software supply chain risks by monitoring Software, Cloud Services, and third-party dependencies.

Key Milestones:

• 2016: Launched our first product.
• 2018: Secured Pre-series A funding.
• 2019: Expanded operations to India, Southeast Asia, and the Americas.
• 2020: Won the NASSCOM-DSCI Excellence Award for Security Product Company of the Year.
• 2021: Raised $7M in Series A funding led by MassMutual Ventures.
• Awards & Recognition: Won NetApp Excellerator's "Best Growth Strategy Award," CloudSEK XVigil joined NVIDIA Inception Program, and won the NASSCOM Emerge 50 Cybersecurity Award.
• 2025: Secured $19 million in funding led by Tenacity Ventures, Commvault.

Role Overview

We are looking for a DevOps Intern with hands-on exposure to cloud-native infrastructure. The role involves working on Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, traffic routing systems, and observability across multi-cloud environments. The candidate should be comfortable learning and troubleshooting real-world workloads end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or AKS).
• Manage traffic routing and ingress systems for Kubernetes workloads.
• Exposure with managing Karpenter for Kubernetes node provisioning and autoscaling.
• Assist in ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems.
• Build and maintain monitoring and logging stacks.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Automate operational tasks and reduce manual toil.
• Assist in troubleshooting issues across networking, containers, and cloud services.
• Collaborate closely with application and security teams.

Key Requirements

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals and architecture (control plane, CNI, CSI, upgrades).
• Exposure to managed Kubernetes services (EKS, GKE, AKS).
• Experience with traffic routing systems such as:
• NGINX Ingress / NGINX Gateway
• Experience with observability tools:
• Basic hands-on experience with Karpenter for Kubernetes node provisioning and autoscaling, including NodePools and EC2NodeClass.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes troubleshooting and workload scaling.
• Strong CI/CD fundamentals; experience with Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Understanding of ingress, routing rules, TLS, and traffic strategies (blue/green, canary).
• Experience with configuration and secrets management (Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets).
• Basic knowledge of scaling, performance tuning, and load benchmarking.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP, and Azure (VPC, IAM, cost awareness).
• Scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Basic understanding of Karpenter and Kubernetes node autoscaling.

Nice-to-Haves

• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Ansible).
• Container and network security exposure.
• Exposure to multi-region or multi-cluster Kubernetes setups.
• Familiarity with SRE practices and incident response.
• Familiarity with advanced Karpenter concepts and configurations.