Own the deployment, scaling and hardening of our Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Automate end-to-end provisioning, ensure security and high availability, and troubleshoot production incidents.

Key Roles and Responsibilities :

- Kubernetes : Deploy, manage & optimize clusters (on-prem, EKS/GKE/AKS)

- IaC & GitOps : Automate with Terraform, Helm charts & Argo CD (or similar)

- CI/CD : Build/maintain pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)

- Monitoring : Implement Prometheus, Grafana & ELK for metrics, logs & alerts

- Troubleshooting : Diagnose container networking, storage & performance issues

- Security : Enforce RBAC, network policies & image-scanning best practices

- DR & Optimization : Define backup/restore strategies and cost-control measures

- Collaboration : Partner with dev teams on containerization and CI/CD workflows

Good to Have :

- Experience with managed Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS)

- Experience with GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux)

- Worked with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

- Familiar with container security tools (Trivy, Clair)