Lead / Senior Engineer – Build, Release & Deploy (K8s Operations & Observability)

RackBank Datacenters Private Ltd.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Growth opportunities

Tooling & automation culture

Job summary

RackBank Datacenters Private Ltd. seeks a Lead / Senior Engineer to own the Build, Release & Deploy pipeline and oversee Kubernetes operations and observability. You will drive CI/CD architecture, release strategies, and end-to-end deployment reliability across the platform.

You will mentor engineers on CI/CD, Kubernetes, and observability, and collaborate with product teams to reduce deployment friction while improving platform reliability and incident response.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering.
• 2+ years in a lead/senior capacity.
• Hands-on Kubernetes production experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end build, release, and deployment pipeline — CI/CD architecture and release strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling).
• Lead Kubernetes operations — cluster architecture, scaling, upgrades, networking, workload.
• Design and own observability stack — metrics, logging, tracing, alerting.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Platform Engineering

Leadership

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Argo CD

Job description

Lead / Senior Engineer – Build, Release & Deploy (K8s Operations & Observability)

6 - 8

Full-Time

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead / Senior Engineer to own our Build, Release & Deploy pipeline along with Kubernetes operations and observability.

This role is central to how reliably and quickly we ship software — from CI/CD architecture to production-grade Kubernetes operations and end-to-end observability. You'll be the go-to owner for release engineering and platform reliability, working closely with engineering teams to reduce friction and increase confidence in every deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end build, release, and deployment pipeline — CI/CD architecture, release strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling), and rollback processes.
• Lead Kubernetes operations — cluster architecture, scaling, upgrades, networking, and workload
• Design and own the observability stack — metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting (e.g.,
• Define and drive SLIs/SLOs and error-budget practices in partnership with engineering teams.
• Build self-service deployment tooling and golden paths so product teams can ship independently and safely.
• Drive incident management — on-call practices, runbooks, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Own infrastructure-as-code practices for cluster and pipeline configuration (Terraform, Helm, Argo
• Mentor engineers on CI/CD, Kubernetes, and observability best practices; act as the technical
• escalation point for release and platform issues.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering, with at least 2+ years in a lead / senior capacity.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production — cluster management, Helm, operators, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, or similar).
• Solid experience with observability tooling — Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry,
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization (Docker).
• Scripting/programming proficiency (Python, Go, or Bash) for automation and tooling.
• Experience owning production reliability — on-call, incident response, and postmortem culture.

Good to Have

• Relevant certifications — CKA/CKAD/CKS, or cloud provider DevOps/Architect certifications.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• Experience setting up a platform engineering or SRE practice from scratch.

What We Offer

• Ownership of the platform that powers every release across the engineering org.
• A culture that invests in tooling, automation, and developer experience.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities.