Roles & Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms aligned with organizational goals.
- Build and manage landing zones and cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane).
- Develop and optimize APIs and cloud-native resources to support platform engineering.
- Lead Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) deployments, including controller development and lifecycle management.
- Contribute to cross-plane framework development for advanced platform engineering.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Groovy, and ArgoCD.
- Integrate monitoring, observability, and security using tools such as Dynatrace and Sonar.
- Partner with DevOps and security teams to deliver fully compliant and secured platforms.
- Drive innovation in cloud automation and platform engineering practices.
- Collaborate in Agile teams, ensuring continuous improvement and delivery.

Years of Experience:

- 1015 years of overall IT experience.
- Minimum 8+ years of hands-on public cloud experience (AWS/Azure).
- 8+ years of IaC/Terraform/Ansible experience.
- 5+ years of cloud resource/API development.




- 4+ years of Kubernetes AKS/EKS/controller development.
- 2+ years of Crossplane framework experience.
- 8+ years of DevOps tools experience (Jenkins, GitHub, Groovy).

Educational Qualification & Certifications (Optional):

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Certifications in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, or DevOps (preferred).

Skill Set Required:

Must have:

- Extensive knowledge of public cloud architecture (AWS/Azure).
- Solid experience in cloud infrastructure/platform/landing zone development.
- IaC expertise with Terraform, Ansible, and Crossplane.
- Cloud resource/API development.
- Kubernetes AKS/EKS and controller development.
- DevOps toolchain experience with Jenkins, GitHub, Groovy, ArgoCD.
- Hands-on programming skills in Python, Golang, and Bash.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, compliance, and automation.

Nice to have:

- Knowledge of Agile methodology.
- Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps and FinOps integration practices.

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