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The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with a specialized background in system security, Kubernetes internals, and distributed storage. In this high-impact role, you will be the primary technical driver for securing the intersection of our CN-AOS platform and NKP.

You will design secure-by-default architectures, develop Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and operators, and ensure our Container Storage Interface (CSI) implementations are hardened against up-to-date attack vectors while effortlessly serving enterprise and AI workloads.

About the Team
The Cloud Native AOS (CN-AOS) team is building enterprise-grade storage and data services platform for containerized world. We are evolving our industry-leading distributed infrastructure into a fully cloud-native architecture designed to run seamlessly on top of any Kubernetes platform be it NKP, EKS or any managed/upstream Kubernetes environment.

Your Role
- Security Architecture & Hardening:



Lead the threat modeling and secure-by-design architecture for the CN-AOS distributed storage fabric. Ensure secure deployment and operations across NKP, EKS, and other Kubernetes platforms by implementing robust Authentication and Authorization (AuthN/AuthZ) for storage microservices, deeply integrating with K8s RBAC, OIDC, and workload identity frameworks (e.g., SPIFFE/SPIRE)
- Platform Hardening & Compliance: Drive the implementation of security controls to ensure the CN-AOS platform complies with strict industry standards, specifically CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks for Kubernetes and Linux, as well as FIPS compliance and zero-trust guidelines.
- Cloud-Native Development: Design and build advanced Kubernetes Controllers, Operators, and CRDs in Golang to natively orchestrate and secure storage workloads.
- Distributed Systems Engineering: Tackle complex problems in large-scale distributed systems, focusing on performance, scaling

📌 SMTS - Development [CN-AOS] (Pune)
🏢 Nutanix
📍 Pune