Staff Engineer (Cloud Engineering)

Nagarro; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nagarro is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer in Bengaluru to design, build, and operate scalable container platforms using Amazon EKS and Terraform. You will collaborate with development teams to deploy microservices with robust CI/CD and GitOps practices, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency.

The ideal candidate has 5.5+ years in cloud/platform engineering, strong Kubernetes/AWS skills, and a track record of secure, observable, multi-region deployments in Agile environments.

Qualifications

• 5.5+ years of experience in cloud or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes in production.
• Proficient in Terraform for IaC and automation.
• Experience with AWS cloud services and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of Microservices Architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with service meshes and container networking.
• Observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Container security, image scanning, secrets management.
• Agile and DevOps environments; multi-region/multi-cloud is desirable.
• CKA or AWS/GCP DevOps certs preferred.
• Strong analytical and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain EKS-based container orchestration.
• Develop Terraform modules for Kubernetes, networking, and infra.
• Implement CI/CD and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Create standardized deployment patterns for microservices.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to run workloads.
• Establish observability for distributed microservices.
• Improve platform performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure secure container platforms with image security and secrets controls.
• Support networking and service mesh implementations.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes/EKS and platform issues.
• Automate deployments, rollbacks, and releases via GitOps.
• Document platform standards and reusable Terraform modules.
• Mentor teammates on Kubernetes, AWS, and DevOps best practices.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

ArgoCD

Microservices

Observability

Container Security

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IT

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at a scale - across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18500+ experts across 40 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

Requirements

• Experience : 5.5+years
• Strong experience in cloud or platform engineering, with strong experience supporting containerized applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, infrastructure provisioning, automation, and reusable modules.
• Working experience with AWS cloud services and DevOps practices.
• Good understanding of Microservices Architecture (MSA), containerized workloads, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Flux.
• Strong experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Understanding of container networking, service discovery, and service mesh technologies such as App Mesh, Istio, or Linkerd.
• Knowledge of observability principles including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and distributed-system performance.
• Experience with container security, image scanning, secrets management, and runtime access controls.
• Familiarity with tools such as Trivy, OPA, or Aqua is an added advantage.
• Experience working in Agile and DevOps-oriented environments.
• Exposure to serverless integrations, event-driven architectures, and multi-region or multi-cloud container platforms is desirable.
• Certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS DevOps Engineer, or GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer are preferred.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure, and maintain container orchestration environments using Amazon EKS and other managed container platforms where required.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules to automate provisioning of Kubernetes clusters, networking, infrastructure, and service integrations.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools.
• Establish standardized deployment patterns and reusable templates for onboarding microservices onto the platform.
• Partner with application development and DevOps teams to deploy and manage microservice workloads using Kubernetes best practices.
• Implement observability frameworks covering monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring for distributed microservices.
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, availability, and cloud costs through right-sizing and automated infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Design and implement secure container platforms, including image security, secrets management, runtime access controls, and policy enforcement.
• Support container networking, service discovery, and service mesh implementations where required.
• Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes, EKS, infrastructure, deployment, and application platform issues and drive root-cause resolution.
• Implement automated deployment, rollback, and release management processes through GitOps practices.
• Contribute to platform standards, technical documentation, reusable Terraform modules, deployment templates, and operational runbooks.
• Support event-driven and serverless integrations for microservice-based applications where required.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, application, and DevOps teams to continuously improve platform reliability and operational efficiency.
• Support multi-region and multi-cloud container architecture initiatives as required.
• Mentor team members and promote best practices in Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, DevOps, and platform engineering.

Qualifications

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.