Job Summary

Lead DevOps Engineer Role Overview Were looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to own, architect, and scale our infrastructure and CI/CD landscape. Youll be the go-to person for pipeline design, Kubernetes operations, and infrastructure reliability someone whos been in the trenches of production-grade systems and can guide a team while staying hands-on.

Job Details

Location: Hyderabad; Mumbai, Telangana, India

Job Type: Full Time

Qualifications

- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.

- Proven track record of designing and operating production-grade Kubernetes environments at scale.

- Prior experience in a lead or senior individual contributor role mentoring engineers and driving DevOps best practices (good to have).

Must-Have Skills

- CI/CD & Pipelines - Expert-level proficiency in building, optimizing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines from scratch.

- Deep experience with tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.

- Strong understanding of pipeline security, artifact management, and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling).

- Linux internals processes, memory management, filesystems, networking, and IPC.

- OS-level performance tuning, troubleshooting, and kernel parameters.

- Solid scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automation and tooling.

- Kubernetes - Hands-on experience deploying,



managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production.

- Deep knowledge of K8s architecture control plane, kubelet, etcd, CNI, CSI, scheduler, and admission controllers.

- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, Operators, CRDs, and policy management.

- Strong understanding of workload lifecycle, resource management, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler), and RBAC.

- Familiarity with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and ingress controllers.

- On-premises experience bare metal or virtualized infrastructure; RKE2, K3s, or similar provisioning tools.

- Knowledge of on-prem networking VLANs, load balancing, DNS, firewall rules, and storage backends (Ceph, NFS, iSCSI).

- Prior lead DevOps experience driving technical decisions, roadmap planning, and mentoring junior engineers.

- Terraform

- Ansible

Nice to Have

- Experience with GPU workloads or AI/ML infrastructure.

- Familiarity with container runtimes beyond containerd (CRI-O, etc.).

- Exposure to GitOps workflows and progressive delivery tooling.

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📌 Lead DevOps (Hyderabad)
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