Technical Lead - OpenShift/Kafka

Job Title : Technical Lead (912 Years Experience)

Experience : 9 to 12 Years

Location : Hyderabad

Job Summary :

We are seeking a seasoned Technical Lead with 9 - 10 years of hands-on experience in designing and delivering scalable enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate will be an expert in container technologies, real-time data streaming, DevOps practices, and performance optimization. You will play a key leadership role in architecting robust systems, guiding teams, and driving continuous improvement in both development and operational processes.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design scalable enterprise-grade solutions using OpenShift, Kafka, and container-based architectures.

- Lead container migrations from legacy systems to modern, cloud-native infrastructure.

- Ensure system performance, high availability, and security across enterprise platforms.

- Take ownership of end-to-end architecture and DevOps integration, including CI/CD pipeline automation.

- Drive compliance, governance, and best practices in deployment and release processes.

- Mentor development teams on performance tuning, observability, and sustainable coding strategies.

- Collaborate with product managers, QA, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment and delivery excellence.

- Evaluate and implement tools for monitoring, alerting, and logging to improve operational visibility and reliability.

- Conduct technical reviews and performance audits to continuously enhance platform stability and speed.

Must-Have Skills :

- Proven experience designing scalable and secure solutions using OpenShift.

- Hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures.

- Strong background in containerization and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).

- Experience leading container migrations, optimizing system performance, security, and availability.

- Solid knowledge of CI/CD automation, with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD.

- Expertise in DevOps practices, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC), continuous monitoring, and automated deployments.

- Strong mentoring skills and experience coaching teams on observability, tuning, and architectural best practices.

Good-to-Have Skills :

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS).

- Knowledge of microservices and event-driven design patterns.

- Hands-on with monitoring tools Grafana, ELK Stack.

- Experience implementing security best practices.

- Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

- Certification in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Cloud platforms is a plus.