Senior Devops Engineer

Randstad; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,200,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad in Hyderabad is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team. You will design, deliver, and evolve our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms across AWS environments, enabling scalable and secure operations.

You will implement IaC with Terraform, manage EKS clusters, write Helm charts, and develop custom Kubernetes controllers. Collaboration with security and architecture teams, plus mentoring, are key parts of the role.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating multi-region AWS architectures.
• Strong communication and ability to present to diverse audiences.
• Proven problem-solving mindset with structured debugging.
• Growth mindset with incident learning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure across multi-AZ AWS environments.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform.
• Administer and evolve Amazon EKS clusters including upgrades.
• Write and maintain Helm charts and troubleshoot deployments.
• Develop and maintain custom Kubernetes controllers and operators.
• Define and champion multi-cloud architecture patterns and best practices.
• Collaborate with development, security, and architecture teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster continuous learning.

Skills

Communication skills

Ambiguity analysis

Problem-solving mindset

Growth mindset

Tools

Terraform

Terraform modules

EKS management

Helm charts

Kubernetes

Kubebuilder

Istio

GitOps

ArgoCD

OpenTelemetry

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the design, delivery, and evolution of our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. You are someone who thrives in ambiguity, brings a growth mindset to every challenge, and communicates clearly across engineering and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across multi-account, multi-region, and multi-AZ AWS environments
• Lead Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform authoring reusable modules, managing workspaces, and enforcing standards across teams
• Administer and evolve Amazon EKS clusters including upgrades, secondary networking configurations, and cluster lifecycle management
• Write and maintain Helm charts including umbrella charts and integration of OSS/community charts; troubleshoot complex Helm deployment issues
• Develop and maintain custom Kubernetes controllers and operators using standard tooling
• Define and champion multi-cloud architecture patterns and best practices
• Analyze open-ended infrastructure and platform problems, propose well-reasoned solutions, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision
• Collaborate closely with development, security, and architecture teams — communicating complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement

Required Skills & Experience

Core Competencies

• Strong communication skills — written and verbal — with the ability to present technical proposals to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to analyze ambiguous, open-ended problems and independently propose and deliver pragmatic solutions
• Strong problem-solving mindset with a structured, methodical approach to debugging and root-cause analysis
• Demonstrated growth mindset — actively learns from incidents, seeks feedback, and keeps up with evolving industry practices

Terraform

• hands-on experience writing production-grade Terraform configurations and reusable modules
• experience with Terraform workspaces for environment and account segregation
• experience using Terraform providers to provision and manage AWS resources across multi-account, multi-region, and multi-AZ topologies
• experience provisioning and managing EKS clusters, VPC networking, and related AWS services via HashiCorp Terraform modules
• experience configuring EKS secondary networking (e.g., VPC CNI custom networking) via Terraform
• Good understanding of multi-cloud infrastructure architecture and portability considerations

Kubernetes & EKS

• hands-on experience in Amazon EKS administration — cluster provisioning, IAM integration, node group management, and day-2 operations
• experience as a Kubernetes practitioner — workload management, RBAC, networking, storage, autoscaling, and observability
• understanding of Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and consumption of OSS Helm charts and Kubernetes operators
• experience managing and executing EKS cluster version upgrades with minimal disruption
• Hands-on experience writing custom controllers and operators using frameworks such as controller-runtime or Kubebuilder
• hands-on experience with AWS Load Balancer Controller — ingress and service configuration on EKS
• hands-on experience with Kubernetes Gateway API — HTTPRoute, GatewayClass, and migration from Ingress

Helm

• experience authoring Helm charts for complex, production workloads
• experience building and managing umbrella charts for multi-component application deployments
• understanding of CRDs and OSS Helm charts — including evaluation, customisation, and maintenance
• experience troubleshooting Helm release failures, hook issues, and chart rendering problems

Istio

• hands-on experience deploying and operating Istio in production Kubernetes environments
• experience with both Istio Sidecar (proxy) and Ambient mesh deployment modes
• understanding of Istio core concepts and traffic management — VirtualService, DestinationRule, Gateway, AuthorizationPolicy, mTLS, and observability integration

AWS

• hands-on experience designing and operating multi-region, multi-AZ AWS architectures
• Deep working knowledge across core AWS services, including:
  • EKS — cluster administration, networking, and integrations
  • VPC — subnets, route tables, security groups, VPC peering, Transit Gateway
  • EC2 — instance types, launch templates, Auto Scaling Groups
  • S3 — bucket policies, lifecycle rules, replication
  • AWS API Gateway
  • Networking — NAT, IGW, PrivateLink, VPN, Direct Connect concepts
  • ACM (AWS Certificate Manager) — certificate provisioning, renewal, and integration with AWS services
  • PCA (AWS Private Certificate Authority) — private CA management for internal TLS
  • Route 53 — DNS management, health checks, routing policies
• Strong understanding of TLS — certificate chains, mTLS, termination strategies, and PKI fundamentals

Nice to Have

• Experience with GitOps tooling (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Cloudbees Jenkins)
• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Atlantis)
• Exposure to service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)

What We Value

• Engineers who own problems end-to-end rather than passing tickets
• A culture of blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement
• Clear, concise documentation and knowledge sharing across the team
• Healthy engineering debate and peer review culture