DevOps SME

Cloudxtreme; Pune District, Chennai District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudxtreme is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to architect and operate large-scale migrations to AWS and Kubernetes. You will drive GitOps-first deployment models using ArgoCD and Spinnaker, and design scalable EKS platforms with Helm charts.

You will own production reliability, partner with SRE and security teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to roadmaps and design docs, shaping the future of our cloud platform.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading AWS migrations for large, high-traffic platforms.
• Strong Linux system tuning and networking expertise.
• Hands-on Python for automation, tooling and operational workflows.

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive large-scale migrations of business-critical services to AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Define and implement GitOps-first deployment strategies using ArgoCD, with Spinnaker for advanced delivery workflows.
• Design, build, and operate production-grade AWS EKS platforms at scale.
• Establish best practices for CI/CD, deployment automation, and release strategies (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery).
• Design and maintain reusable Helm charts and standardized deployment patterns.
• Develop and maintain Python-based tooling for deployment, operations, and reliability.
• Provide deep Linux systems expertise, including performance tuning, debugging, and incident mitigation.
• Own and support production systems, including on-call participation, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Partner with SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security into platform design.
• Drive architectural reviews, author design documents, and influence long-term platform and migration roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for DevOps and platform engineering practices.

Skills

Linux systems

Python

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

ArgoCD

GitOps

Spinnaker

Helm

On-call experience

Observability concepts

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ArgoCD

Spinnaker

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Architect and drive large-scale migrations of business-critical services to AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms
• Define and implement GitOps-first deployment strategiesusing ArgoCD, with Spinnakerfor advanced delivery workflows
• Design, build, and operate production-grade AWS EKSplatforms at scale
• Establish best practices for CI/CD, deployment automation, and release strategies (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery)
• Design and maintain reusable Helm chartsand standardized deployment patterns
• Develop and maintain Python-based tooling and automationfor deployment, operations, and reliability
• Provide deep Linux systems expertise, including performance tuning, debugging, and incident mitigation
• Own and support production systems, including on-call participation, incident response, and root cause analysis
• Partner with SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security into platform design
• Drive architectural reviews, author design documents, and influence long-term platform and migration roadmaps
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for DevOps and platform engineering practices

Preferred candidate profile

• Proven experience leading AWS migrationsfor large, high-traffic, business-critical platforms
• Strong hands-on expertise with:
• Linux systems(performance tuning, networking, troubleshooting)
• Pythonfor automation, tooling, and operational workflows
• AWS(EKS, VPC, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, S3, RDS)
• Kubernetes (EKS)in production environments
• ArgoCDand GitOps deployment models
• Spinnakerfor continuous delivery
• Helmfor application packaging and release management
• Experience operating and supporting production environments with on-call responsibility
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and cloud security
• Ability to lead through influence and collaborate across engineering disciplines

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Akamai CDN, caching strategies, and edge delivery patterns
• Experience with Redis(caching, replication, high availability)
• Experience with Kafkaor other distributed messaging systems
• Experience operating platforms at scale (hundreds of services, multi-team environments)
• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Datadog)
• Familiarity with SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical design documentation and executive-level discussions