About the Role We are urgently hiring a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer with deep production expertise in RKE2 Rancher-based Kubernetes platforms Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration security hardening and full-stack observability in a highly regulated PCI-DSS RBI environment Key Responsibilities Administer large-scale production RKE2 Kubernetes clusters using Rancher multi-cluster multi-tenant Perform cluster node upgrades certificate rotation ingress updates etcd backup-restore HA setup DR drills Deep administration and troubleshooting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 9 nodes host OS for all control-plane worker nodes Manage and tune the complete ELK stack Elasticsearch Logstash Filebeat Winlogbeat Kibana for centralized logging Deploy upgrade and maintain Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager Loki Promtail Administer self-hosted GitLab GitLab Runners secure CI CD pipelines and kubeconfig generation Install upgrade and operate Keycloak clusters OIDC SSO 2FA LDAP AD sync Configure and optimize HAProxy TLS real-IP forwarding security headers Enforce CIS hardening on both Kubernetes and underlying RHEL hosts non-root seccomp SELinux auditd firewall Lead security remediation VA PT finding closure and compliance PCI-DSS SISA RBI Onboard migrate applications Java NET Angular Mendix to Kubernetes Build heavy automation using Ansible Bash and Python Must-Have Skills Experience 6 years of production DevOps Platform Engineering experience Expert-level RKE2 Rancher administration mandatory Very strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 9 administration and hardening RHEL subscriptions satellite SELinux firewalld auditd SSH hardening etc Hands-on setup and operations of ELK EFK stack at scale cluster tuning index management retention policies hot-warm-cold architecture security roles Deep Kubernetes internals - Calico Cilium Ingress-NGINX certificates etcd networking security contexts Production experience with Prometheus Grafana Loki stack Self-hosted GitLab administration and GitLab Runner fleet management Keycloak clustering and integration with GitLab Rancher Grafana etc Strong HAProxy configuration and troubleshooting CIS benchmarking hardening for both Kubernetes and RHEL Ansible automation and scripting Bash Python Proven track record of executing Kubernetes DR drills Nice-to-Have Skills Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE or RHCA CKA CKS Rancher certification Longhorn OpenEBS or other CSI drivers ArgoCD Flux Job Type Full time Pay 572 063 83 - 1 894 555 79 per year Benefits Health insurance Provident Fund Ability to commute relocate Kochi Kerala Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work Required Experience Kubernetes 6 years Required RKE2 - Rancher 6 years Required Work Location In person

📌 Senior Devops Engineer – Kubernetes & Rancher Platform Specialist (Kerala)
🏢 HybCloud Technologies (Cloud Control
📍 Kerala