Responsibilities

About the Role

This outstanding role is intended for a senior hands-on engineer with 8–11 years of experience in middleware, application hosting, infrastructure operations, and modern container platforms. Our organization is undergoing a transition-state environment where the primary focus is on Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, container workload operations, automation, observability, and production reliability, while also maintaining legacy middleware platforms during migration and modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Coordinate, support, automate, troubleshoot, and improve containerized workloads on EKS/Kubernetes with production-grade reliability.
Maintain WebSphere/Liberty/API Gateway and related middleware during the transition period, including patching, certificates, JVM support, and migration readiness inputs.
Own day-2 operations for EKS/Kubernetes workloads including deployment support, access, namespace management, health checks, scaling, configuration, troubleshooting, and controlled releases.
Build, deploy, upgrade, rollback,



and troubleshoot workloads by working with container images, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, ArgoCD/GitOps, kubectl, AWS CLI, and CI/CD pipelines.
Conduct L3 troubleshooting for pods, services, ingress, DNS, networking, secrets, storage, node readiness, scheduling failures, failed deployments, failed releases, and workload performance problems.
Partner with application and platform teams to modernize VM/middleware-hosted workloads into containerized deployment models with explicit readiness, dependency, and operational acceptance inputs.
Apply secure operating methods in IAM, RBAC, secrets management, TLS/certificates, patching, vulnerability remediation, audit controls, and least-privilege access.
Drive automation and standardization through reusable scripts, Helm patterns, runbooks, GitOps workflows, operational dashboards, and reduced manual intervention.
Build and maintain runbooks, SOPs, RCA documents, KT material,

📌 Consultant - Infrastructure Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Principal Financial Group
📍 Hyderabad