Staff Engineer (Cloud Engineering)

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

Job summary

Nagarro is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to design and manage container platforms using Amazon EKS and Terraform. You will implement CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions, automate provisioning, and partner across teams to optimize reliability and security in a distributed, multi-region cloud environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on Kubernetes, cloud-native design, and strong collaboration to accelerate product delivery while reducing costs.

Qualifications

• 5.5+ years of experience in cloud or platform engineering.
• Strong experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in Terraform for IaC and automation.
• Experience with AWS cloud services and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of Microservices, containerization, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps via GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Flux.
• Strong experience with ArgoCD and GitOps deployment workflows.
• Knowledge of container networking, service discovery, and service mesh tech.
• Familiarity with observability (monitoring/logging/tracing/alerting).
• Experience with container security, image scanning, secrets management, and runtime controls.
• Agile and DevOps oriented environments; exposure to serverless integrations and multi-region/multi-cloud containers.
• Certifications such as CKA, AWS DevOps Engineer, or GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain container orchestration environments using Amazon EKS and other managed platforms.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules to automate Kubernetes clusters and networking provisioning.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools.
• Standardize deployment patterns and templates for onboarding microservices.
• Deploy and manage microservice workloads with Kubernetes best practices.
• Implement observability frameworks for monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, and cloud costs through automated lifecycle management.
• Design secure container platforms, including image security and runtime access controls.
• Support container networking, service discovery, and service mesh implementations.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes/EKS/infrastructure issues and drive root-cause resolution.
• Automate deployment, rollback, and release management via GitOps.
• Contribute to platform standards, documentation, and reusable Terraform modules.
• Support event-driven/serverless integrations as needed.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and DevOps teams to improve reliability.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

EKS

ArgoCD

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Docker

Microservices

Observability

Security

Serverless

Multi-region/Multi-cloud

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Istio

Linkerd

Trivy

OPA

Aqua

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.