Senior DevOps Engineer

solera; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Solera is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to join the Virtualization Platform team, supporting global Kubernetes platforms and driving end-to-end workstreams across regions.

This hands-on role emphasizes cluster build and operation direction, GitOps provisioning, security posture, and automation. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with application teams, and own incident response in a high‑availability enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
• Experience across multiple clusters or regions.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver platform workstreams end to end across a multi-region cluster estate.
• Design cluster provisioning with GitOps and Helm charts.
• Serve as senior on-call escalation for enterprise systems.
• Collaborate with application teams on resource optimisation and resiliency.
• Strengthen container security and networking posture.
• Shape and maintain the Kubernetes roadmap with leadership.
• Mentor engineers and improve runbooks and standards.
• Handle daily ops and automate recurring toil.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

GitOps

Automation scripting

Incident management

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Security awareness

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Rancher

RKE2

Tanzu

OpenShift

PCF

EKS/AKS

Job description

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life's other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation. For more information, please visit solera.com.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to join our Virtualization Platform team, supporting Solera's key Kubernetes platforms for the global market. This hands‑on engineer will be part of a global team of 10+ engineers and managers responsible for building, maturing, and supporting Solera applications on Kubernetes platforms across virtualization environments and the public cloud. You will own significant workstreams end to end, set technical direction for how our clusters are built and operated, and act as a senior escalation point for the platform.

This role requires deep technical expertise, a keen eye for detail, a tenacious mindset to overcome challenges, and a commitment to quality.

What You'll Do

• Own and deliver platform workstreams end to end - lifecycle upgrades across a large multi-region cluster estate (Kubernetes, node OS, service mesh, ingress, and platform add-ons), from planning and pre-work through documentation and rollout.
• Design and improve how clusters are built and managed: GitOps-driven provisioning, cluster lifecycle automation, and standardised Helm charts consumed by development teams.
• Act as a senior escalation point in an on‑call rotation for highly available enterprise‑class systems, leading incident diagnosis to root cause and driving the follow‑up actions.
• Partner directly with application engineering teams on resource optimisation, rightsizing, workload resiliency, and remediation of platform‑level blockers.
• Strengthen container security and networking posture - runtime policy enforcement, secrets management, image supply chain, and ingress/API gateway configuration.
• Shape and maintain the Kubernetes roadmap alongside the operations leads: estimate scope, sequence work against business outcomes, and flag risk early.
• Mentor engineers on the team, review their designs and changes, and raise the bar on documentation and operational practice.
• Author and maintain runbooks, standards, and internal documentation that other engineers and development teams rely on as the source of truth.
• Complete daily operational work - change requests, troubleshooting tickets - and systematically convert recurring toil into automation.

What You'll Bring

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 5+ years of hands‑on experience operating Kubernetes in production, including at least 2 years at scale across multiple clusters or regions (Rancher/RKE2, Tanzu, OpenShift, PCF, EKS/AKS, or upstream Kubernetes).

Key Skills

• Deep working knowledge of the Kubernetes ecosystem and adjacent platform tooling - ArgoCD, Kong, Vault, Traefik, NeuVector, Istio, ingress‑nginx, cert‑manager, Prometheus/Grafana, or close equivalents.
• Strong understanding of container runtimes (containerd, Docker) and a Kubernetes distribution such as Rancher Kubernetes Engine, including cluster upgrade and node lifecycle mechanics.
• Proficient scripting and automation skills - Bash and Python (or PowerShell/Go) - with a demonstrated track record of eliminating manual work through code, Ansible, or GitOps.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross‑team technical projects independently and make sound design decisions with minimal supervision.
• Experience mentoring or technically guiding less experienced engineers.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and attention to detail, with the flexibility to adapt and meet changing demands.
• Proactive ownership within a collaborative, globally distributed environment.
• Ability to thrive under pressure in a demanding environment, with a commitment to excellence.
• Intellectually curious and prepared to challenge and be challenged.

Desirable Skills

• Container networking and security at depth - CNI behaviour, network policy, runtime security enforcement, TLS and certificate management.
• Cluster API / infrastructure-as-code provisioning of Kubernetes clusters on vSphere or equivalent.
• Storage integration in Kubernetes (CSI drivers, NetApp, Dell, or similar).
• Monitoring, alerting, and logging at scale - Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Elasticsearch or Graylog - including alert routing and noise reduction.
• CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practice, including GitHub Actions.
• Backup and disaster recovery for Kubernetes (V